Curiosity a cultural history of early modern inquiry
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Inspecting and spectating: Monsters, rarities, and investigators -- Regulating curiosity -- Consuming curiosity -- From the curious to the curio -- Connoisseurship in the mental cabinet -- Performing curiosity -- Transgression and ambition -- Notes -- Ind...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
2001
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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English literature
> History and criticism
> Literature and science
> History
> Literature and society
> Curiosities and wonders in literature
> 18th century
> Early modern, 1500-1700
> 19th century
> Great Britain
> Collectors and collecting in literature
> Curiosity in literature
> Monsters in literature
> Museums in literature
> Englisch
> Literatur
> Kuriosität
> Neugier
> Geschichte 1500-1700
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Inspecting and spectating: Monsters, rarities, and investigators -- Regulating curiosity -- Consuming curiosity -- From the curious to the curio -- Connoisseurship in the mental cabinet -- Performing curiosity -- Transgression and ambition -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 321 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226042633 978-0-226-04263-3 9780226042640 978-0-226-04264-0 0226042634 0-226-04263-4 0226042642 0-226-04264-2 |