Curious collectors, collected curiosities : an interdisciplinary study /: an interdisciplinary study. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Janelle A. Schwartz and Nhora Lucía Serrano.
• Other Names: Schwartz, Janelle A; Serrano, Nhora Lucía
• Contents: On the virtues of cabinets and curiosities / Amy Johnson, Janelle A. Schwartz, Nhora Lucia Serrano -- "Very rare, fragile, and priceless" : transforming Leonardo da Vinci from collector to curiosity / Nhora Lucia Serrano -- Cabinets in reverse : staging the European body as curiosity in the literature of new world encounter / Stephanie Shirilan -- The ark of the museum : epistemological change in John Tradescant's cabinet of curiosities / Jan Olesen -- Botched animals and enigmatic beasts / Rachel Poliquin -- A curious commodity : Antoine Galland's Arabian nights' entertainments / Amanda Kenny -- Captain Cook's cabinet : the making of an arctic imaginary / Janelle A. Schwartz -- Collecting animal images : a natural history of cinema / William Nolan -- An incoherent collection? : Andre du Bouchet's L'incoherence / Michael Sohn -- Anatomy of an exhibition : W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn / Amy Johnson -- On being embedded : some notes on the environmental curiosities of air travel / Christopher Schaberg.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (170 pages)
• Subjects: 790.132; Collectors and collecting; Collectors and collecting -- History; Collectors and collecting; Sammler; Sammlung; Sammler; Sammlung; Kuriosität; Raritätenkammer; Verzamelen; Theorie en praktijk; Sammlung; Aufsatzsammlung; History; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527553385
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.