Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 24 nov 2010 - 288 pagine 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, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? |
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1 Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England | 16 |
Natural History and Collecting | 55 |
Chorography Antiquarianism and the Politics of Landscape | 97 |
Jonson Herrick and Textual SelfFashioning | 149 |
An Ornament to the Nation | 194 |
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