عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
DA380 .S93 2001
DA380
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S93
2001
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0812236106 (acid-free paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780812236101 (acid-free paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b415452
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Curiosities and texts :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the culture of collecting in early modern England /
First Statement of Responsibility
Marjorie Swann.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
280 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Material texts
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-271) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England -- 2. Sons of Science: Natural History and Collecting -- 3. The Countryside as Collection: Chorography, Antiquarianism, and the Politics of Landscape -- 4. The Author as Collector: Jonson, Herrick, and Textual Self-Fashioning -- Epilogue: An Ornament to the Nation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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?
Text of Note
For Swann, such superficially disparate artifacts as a gentleman's prized "african charm made out of teeth," the narrative catalogs of English landscape features that begin to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and the famous 1616 folio edition of Ben Jonson, in which a living author for the first time issued his own collected "Works," can be profitably viewed as parts of a single cultural dynamic. Constructing her argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity."--BOOK JACKET.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Antiquarians-- Great Britain, Biography.
Collectors and collecting-- England-- History-- 17th century.
Curiosities and wonders-- England-- History-- 17th century.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
Natural history-- England-- History-- 17th century.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England, Civilization, 17th century.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DA380
Book number
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S93
2001
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Swann, Marjorie, (Marjorie E.)
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20140220050925.0
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مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
