The Hummingbird Cabinet

Klappentext She links the collecting craze during the romantic era with the subsequent fetishization of romantic poets and their possessions, revealing the extent to which an ongoing fascination with material objects - with Keats's hair and Shelley's guitar, for example - helped to produce an enduring image of these poets as spiritual emissaries of a less materialistic age. In language both witty and idiosyncratic, Pascoe makes the case that the romantic period stands out as a distinct moment in collecting history, a transition between the flourishing of the Renaissance wonder cabinet and the rise of the Victorian museum. Zusammenfassung "This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously! and by necessity shares! the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness! on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It...

Zusammenfassung
"This book is... a romantic history of romantic collecting. It takes seriously, and by necessity shares, the tendency of romantic histories to dwell upon their own fragmentariness, on the impossibility of capturing an intact history.... It...

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