Book ID: CBB000082529

The poetics of natural history: From John Bartram to William James (1999)

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Irmscher, Christoph (Author)


Rutgers University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xvii + 354 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: 1. “America transplanted”: John and William Bartram. 2. Collection and recollection: Charles Willson Peale. 3. Collecting human nature: P.T. Barnum. 4. The power of fascination. 5. Audubon at large. 6. Agassiz agonistes.


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Review Clutton-Brock, J. (1999) Review of "The poetics of natural history: From John Bartram to William James". Nature (p. 214). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sellers, Charles Coleman
Fishman, Gail
Volmer, Stephanie
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Schofield, Robert E.
Roberts, Jon H.
Journals
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
American Studies
Almagest
Publishers
University Press of Florida
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Yale University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Norton
Knopf
Concepts
Naturalists
Museums
Natural history
Science and art
Glaciology
Botany
People
Bartram, William
Bartram, John
Peale, Charles Willison
Audubon, John James
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
Wilson, Alexander
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
New England (U.S.)
North America
Caribbean
Institutions
Peale's Museum, Philadelphia
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