{"product_id":"curiosities-and-texts-the-culture-of-collecting-in-early-modern-england","title":"Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCuriosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMarjorie Swann\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780812236101\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCuriosities and Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England | Marjorie Swann | Hardcover | 9780812236101 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1747900","offer_id":48855872733336,"sku":"1747900","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61RWblZdHSL.jpg?v=1775567294","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/curiosities-and-texts-the-culture-of-collecting-in-early-modern-england","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}