Curiosities and Texts : : The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England / / Marjorie Swann.
A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnog...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Material Texts
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England
- Chapter 2. Sons of Science
- Chapter 3. The Countryside as Collection
- Chapter 4. The Author as Collector
- Epilogue: An Ornament to the Nation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments