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The poetics of natural history /

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from Joihn Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale's museum to P. T. Barnum's American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry James as...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Irmscher, Christoph (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Édition:Second edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword / Purcell, Rosamond
  • Notes on the Photographs
  • Preface to the Second Edition / Irmscher, Christoph
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Displaying
  • Chapter 1. "America Transplanted" / Bartram, John / Bartram, William
  • Chapter 2. Collection and Recollection / Peale, Charles Willson
  • Chapter 3. Collecting Human Nature / Barnum, P. T.
  • Part Two. Representing
  • Chapter 4. The Power of Fascination
  • Chapter 5. Audubon at Large
  • Chapter 6. Agassiz Agonistes
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index