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
Yochelson, Ellis Leon
Volmer, Stephanie
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Schofield, Robert E.
Concepts
Museums
Naturalists
Glaciology
Natural history
Botany
Animals
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
New England (U.S.)
Caribbean
Institutions
Peale's Museum, Philadelphia
Smithsonian Institution
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