Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England Swann Marjorie
Curiosities and Texts The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England Marjorie Swann "Highly recommended."--Library Journal A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth…
Specifikacia Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England Swann Marjorie
Curiosities and Texts The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England Marjorie Swann "Highly recommended."--Library Journal 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? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began