The Poetics of Natural History / / Christoph Irmscher.

• 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
• Ano de Publicação: 2019
• Idioma: English
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (730 p.) :; 25 color and 45 b-w images

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...

Table of Contents

• 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