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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swann, Marjorie (Marjorie E.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
Colección:Material texts.
Temas:
1500 - 1700
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.
Curiosités et merveilles > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences naturelles > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Antiquarians
Civilization
Collectors and collecting
Curiosities and wonders
English literature > Early modern
Natural history
England > Civilization > 17th century.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 17e siècle.
England
Great Britain
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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