Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 - 280 psl. 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. |
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... elites : a grey agate that changes color when submerged in water " was presented to the better adorning of the foremen- tioned curiosities , by worthy Sr. Francis Peters , " while a " prickled Crab called the Sea Spyder ... was given to ...
... elite benefactors are designed to exhibit the collector's membership in networks of political , social , and cultural prestige . The published cata- logue thus becomes a theater of mastery in which the collector fashions and displays ...
... elite circle of singular gentlemen ; likewise , the Royal Society developed a Baconian collection of rarities , a " Reposi- tory , " to align its own quest for members with the virtuosos ' agenda of individual and corporate self ...
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Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England | 16 |
Sons of Science Natural History and Collecting | 55 |
The Countryside as Collection Chorography Antiquarianism and the Politics of Landscape | 97 |
The Author as Collector | 147 |
An Ornament to the Nation | 192 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 243 |
Index | 271 |
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Curiosities and Texts– The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England Marjorie Swann Ribota peržiūra - 2010 |