Abstract
A review of Kevin M. Moist and David Banash (eds), Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices and the Fate of Things (Scarecrow Press, 2013).
Highlights
If Contemporary Collecting aspires to refine a field-‐in-‐progress, it largely succeeds due to its multidisciplinarity
Though none of the authors frame their interventions as such, many of them have fellow travellers in the field of affect studies. They frequently engage the emotional life of collecting, the loss of personal belongings, and some are doused in grief whether purposefully or not
The emphasis on emotion is the sharpest contribution that Contemporary Collecting in its entirety grants collecting studies
Summary
Terri Baker’s piece on ‘the Victorian woman collector’ and institutions such as the Folger Shakespeare Library attends to matters of gender and feminism (even as more needs to be done on this subject within and without this book). They frequently engage the emotional life of collecting, the loss of personal belongings, and some are doused in grief whether purposefully or not.
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