Ephemeraphilia

A Queer History

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ID4740787
AuthorsGillian Russell (0000-0001-6423-0655, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Faculty of Arts University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010 Australia)
Year2018
Volume23
Issue1
Pages174-186
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAngelaki (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0969725x.2018.1435393
OpenAlexW2791039631
LanguageEN
References cited24

This article has as its focus a queer object – an otherwise unremarkable ticket for an eighteenth-century assembly or ball in a collection of tickets made by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, an influential figure in the development of the British Museum in the Victorian period. I argue that the ticket is a tribute to a larger collection, also in the British Museum, made by Sarah Sophia Banks, in order to make claims for the attention to printed ephemera as a queer science that was foundational in the conceptualization and practice of archives of all kinds. The queer object of Franks's ticket, in relation to the history of printed ephemera, is used to contextualize and historicize debates about ephemera in contemporary queer theory and cultural studies more generally

Epistemology · Bioethics and Human Rights Issues · Law in Society and Culture · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Philosophy

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