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With a catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections
Author : Ashmolean Museum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art
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With a catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections
Author : Arthur Grant MacGregor
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1983
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Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812203178
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 to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann 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? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
Author : Mea Allan
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Horticulture
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Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521842327
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Biography
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1868
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Great Britain
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