The poetics of natural history
Subtitle: from John Bartram to William James
By: Christoph Irmscher.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Natural history -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Natural history -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Naturalists -- United States; Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Natural history literature -- United States; Poetics -- History -- 18th century; Poetics -- History -- 19th century
Description: "The Poetics of Natural History is about the daydreams of early American naturalists (from 1730 to 1868) and the collections they created around these dreams. Christoph Irmscher explores how, through the acts of organizing physical artifacts and reflecting upon their collections in writings and images, naturalists from John Bartram to Louis Agassiz were making sense of themselves and their world. These collections allowed them, in a way, to collect themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-335) and index.