Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England

Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England /

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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Main Author: Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
Collectors and collecting > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Curiosities and wonders > England > History > 17th century.
Natural history > England > History > 17th century.
Antiquarians > Great Britain > Biography.
England > Civilization > 17th century.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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