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Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page

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Authors:
  1. Maryanne Dever

    1. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Matter of Archival Paperwork: An Introduction

    • Maryanne Dever
    Pages 1-25

  3. The Weight of Paper

    • Maryanne Dever
    Pages 27-50

  4. Archival Mess

    • Maryanne Dever
    Pages 51-73

  5. Dark Archive

    • Maryanne Dever
    Pages 75-100

  6. Afterword

    • Maryanne Dever
    Pages 101-107

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 109-121
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About this book

The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page in ways that we have hitherto largely ignored. Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page responds to this provocation by setting out an approach or an orientation to ‘thinking through paper’. Critically, it questions what work the archived page does if it is more than an invisible or transparent support to text. Three exemplary case studies are offered on the letters of Greta Garbo, the messy archival remains of Australian writer Eve Langley and the letters and manuscripts of English poet Valentine Ackland. Together they demonstrate how approaches grounded in concerns with materiality and matter can shift how we understand archival research and what we accept as archival ‘evidence’. They also reveal the emergent capacities of the paper page.

                            

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Maryanne Dever

About the author

Maryanne Dever is a Professor and an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Her publications include The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers and Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research. She co-edits the journal Australian Feminist Studies. 





                    

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page

  • Authors: Maryanne Dever

  • Series Title: New Directions in Book History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49886-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49885-4Published: 31 October 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49886-1Published: 31 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6117

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 121

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of the Book

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