The Poetics of Natural History /

The Poetics of Natural History / / Christoph Irmscher.

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Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John 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 “halls of humbug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Irmscher, Christoph,
MitwirkendeR:
Barnum, P. T.,
Bartram, John,
Bartram, William,
Irmscher, Christoph,
Peale, Charles Willson,
Purcell, Rosamond,
TeilnehmendeR:
Purcell, Rosamond.
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Argitaratze-urtea:2019
Hizkuntza:English
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Deskribapen fisikoa:1 online resource (730 p.) :; 25 color and 45 b-w images
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Aurkibidea:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Notes on the Photographs
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Displaying
  • Chapter 1. “America Transplanted”
  • Chapter 2. Collection and Recollection
  • Chapter 3. Collecting Human Nature
  • Part Two. Representing
  • Chapter 4. The Power of Fascination
  • Chapter 5. Audubon at Large
  • Chapter 6. Agassiz Agonistes
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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