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Book Synopsis Curiosities and Texts by : Marjorie Swann
Download or read book Curiosities and Texts written by Marjorie Swann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Agassiz Journal for Curiosity Collectors by :
Download or read book The Agassiz Journal for Curiosity Collectors written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wheldon & Wesley's Catalogue by : Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd
Download or read book Wheldon & Wesley's Catalogue written by Wheldon & Wesley, Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A culture of curiosity by : Leonie Hannan
Download or read book A culture of curiosity written by Leonie Hannan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.
Download or read book The Agassiz Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Andre Gide and Curiosity by : Victoria Reid
Download or read book Andre Gide and Curiosity written by Victoria Reid and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive exploration of curiosity in the fiction and life-writing of André Gide (1869-1951) is an important modernist contribution to the field of curiosity in literature and cultural studies more broadly. Curiosity was a credo for Gide. By observing the world and then manifesting in writing these observations, he stimulates the curiosity of readers, conceived as virtual conduits of a curiosity once his own. Using a thematic structure of sexual, scientific and writerly curiosity, this volume identifies processes of curiosity in the life-writing (including the travel-writing) which illuminate processes in the fiction, and vice versa. Theories of fetishism, gender and sexuality are applied to Gide's corpus to illustrate his championing of a masculine curiosity of enlightenment and adventure over a feminised 'curiosité-défaillance' of disobedience and harm, and to explore objects eliciting his incuriosity. Gide's creativity is nourished by his curiosity, as close readings of his work informed by Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic writing on epistemophilia reveal. Curiosity is a rewarding, non-reductionist perspective from which the exceptional variety of Gide's subject matter, style and genre can be more coherently understood. Research draws principally on the six Pléiade volumes of Gide's oeuvre, published 1996-2009.
Book Synopsis Holy Curiosity by : Amy Hollingsworth
Download or read book Holy Curiosity written by Amy Hollingsworth and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One passage, two verses, four words. As a writer and an adjunct professor of psychology, Amy Hollingsworth is on her way to becoming an "expert" on creativity. But just days before delivering her first professional seminar on the topic, she has an unsettling dream. The dream awakens her to the fact that she has missed a crucial element in understanding what true creativity is. Trying to unravel the dream, she soon discovers its contents reflected in a single passage of ancient literature. In this passage she sees for the first time creativity's core, its spiritual roots, and as its meaning unfolds through months of spiritual reflection and study, it confirms the very scientific theories she's been teaching all along. In fact, she discovers the underpinnings of the whole body of creativity research tucked into four small words penned centuries ago, kernels of truth that explode with a new depth of meaning. As she digs deeper, she uncovers for the reader God's blueprint for cultivating the creative spirit in everyday life, through a practical outworking of her spiritual findings. In the end, both writer and reader come away with a new understanding of their own creative abilities--and a profound sense of what's truly holy about holy curiosity.
Book Synopsis A General Catalogue of Choice Books for the Library, Classified and Priced by : Clarke, booksellers, Cincinnati
Download or read book A General Catalogue of Choice Books for the Library, Classified and Priced written by Clarke, booksellers, Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York by : Anonymous
Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue of Books in the Mercantile Library of the City of New York written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Book Synopsis HENRY G. BOHN'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS by : HENRY J. BOHN
Download or read book HENRY G. BOHN'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY J. BOHN and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wheldon & Wesley's Catalogue by : Wheldon & Wesley, London
Download or read book Wheldon & Wesley's Catalogue written by Wheldon & Wesley, London and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Books by : Henry George BOHN
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books written by Henry George BOHN and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis HENRY G. BOHN'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS by : HENRY G. BOHNS
Download or read book HENRY G. BOHN'S CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHNS and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis CATALOGUE OF BOOKS by : HENRY G. BOHN'S
Download or read book CATALOGUE OF BOOKS written by HENRY G. BOHN'S and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities in the National Institute, Arranged in the Building Belonging to the Patent Office by : National Institute for the Promotion of Science
Download or read book A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities in the National Institute, Arranged in the Building Belonging to the Patent Office written by National Institute for the Promotion of Science and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Naturalists' Directory by : Samuel Edson Cassino
Download or read book The Naturalists' Directory written by Samuel Edson Cassino and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
