Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England
"In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann examines the imperatives behind the craze for collecting physical objects and discusses its relationship to the literary culture of the period. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies, she addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts - both as material objects and as vehicles of representation - participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting?
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2001
collective biographies
280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780812236101, 0812236106
45835632