Sociable Knowledge : Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain /

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Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words, sometimes over a period of many years, before fixing them in printed form. They built up their stocks of papers by sharing these mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yale, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Material texts.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Natural history literature > Great Britain.
Natural history > Great Britain > Historiography.
Topographical surveying > Political aspects > Great Britain.
Topographical surveying > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Naturalists > Archives.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Natural history correspondence > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Natural history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "A whole and perfect bodie and book" : constructing the human and natural history of Britain
  • 1. "This book doth not shew you a telescope, but a mirror" : the topographical Britain in print
  • 2. Putting texts, things, and people in motion : learned correspondence in action
  • 3. Natural history "hardly can bee done by letters" : conversation, writing, and the making of natural knowledge
  • 4. John Aubrey's Naturall historie of Wiltshire : a case study in scribal collaboration
  • 5. Publics of letters : printing for (and through) correspondence
  • 6. "The manuscripts flew about like butterflies" : self-archiving and the pressures of history
  • Conclusion. Paper Britannias.

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