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The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors

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 | #1197713 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2005-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.10 x.95 x7.68l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful Book|By Laura A. Burris|Beautiful book, shipped very quickly. Was a gift for my grandmother and she loved it.|6 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Scholarship that Sings|By Ichthyornis|This book on collecting is itself a rare bird--a scholarly book so beautifully written one begins to think about the sen| |"Pascoe's book, highly enjoyable and also nicely produced, meditates on the subterranean connections between the collecting passions of Romantic-era collectors and those of the poets, lines from whose poems they often quoted. Pascoe is insightful and playful i

"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 traces the particular ways in which objects stepped into the lives of romantic collectors, and also the ways in which the objects moved on."―from the IntroductionIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors   |  Judith Pascoe. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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