Strangers in the archive : literary evidence and London's East End / Heidi Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Heidi, 1969- author.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series.

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archival resources.

East End (London, England)--Archival resources.

East End (London, England).

East End (London, England)--In literature.

Polack, Maria, 1787-1849.

Polack, Maria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Strangers in the Archive shows how understudied print and material records can expand and reshape our understanding of the East End--a place constructed in popular nineteenth-century novels and newspapers as a ghetto space overpopulated by dangerous immigrants and serial killers. A blending of scholarly memoir and literary analysis, and using Polack's Fiction without Romance as a point of entry, this book investigates the work of archives and the reach of East End Jewish literary culture throughout the Atlantic world, while drawing from digital humanities methods to expand concepts of literary evidence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: visuality and the archive

Before the archive: East End discourse out of context

Archive models: Maria Polack's Fiction without romance transformed

The noisy archive: A.S. Lyon's East End diaries

An archive of lies: evidence and the Jews' Orphan Asylum investigations

Conclusion: strangers in the archive.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780813947389

0813947383

OCLC:

1313444807