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- catalog abstract ""In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann examines the imperatives behind the craze for collecting physical objects and discusses its relationship to the literary culture of the period. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies, she 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? For Swann, such superficially disparate artifacts as a gentleman's prized "african charm made out of teeth," the narrative catalogs of English landscape features that begin to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and the famous 1616 folio edition of Ben Jonson, in which a living author for the first time issued his own collected "Works," can be profitably viewed as parts of a single cultural dynamic. Constructing her argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12194130.
- catalog coverage "England Civilization 17th century.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann examines the imperatives behind the craze for collecting physical objects and discusses its relationship to the literary culture of the period. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies, she 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?".
- catalog description "1. Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England -- 2. Sons of Science: Natural History and Collecting -- 3. The Countryside as Collection: Chorography, Antiquarianism, and the Politics of Landscape -- 4. The Author as Collector: Jonson, Herrick, and Textual Self-Fashioning -- Epilogue: An Ornament to the Nation.".
- catalog description "For Swann, such superficially disparate artifacts as a gentleman's prized "african charm made out of teeth," the narrative catalogs of English landscape features that begin to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and the famous 1616 folio edition of Ben Jonson, in which a living author for the first time issued his own collected "Works," can be profitably viewed as parts of a single cultural dynamic. Constructing her argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-271) and index.".
- catalog extent "280 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812236106 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Material texts".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Civilization 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "942.06 21".
- catalog subject "Antiquarians England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Antiquarians Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Collectors and collecting England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Curiosities and wonders England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "DA380 .S93 2001".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Natural history England History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Cultures of Collecting in Early Modern England -- 2. Sons of Science: Natural History and Collecting -- 3. The Countryside as Collection: Chorography, Antiquarianism, and the Politics of Landscape -- 4. The Author as Collector: Jonson, Herrick, and Textual Self-Fashioning -- Epilogue: An Ornament to the Nation.".
- catalog title "Curiosities and texts : the culture of collecting in early modern England / Marjorie Swann.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".