The Poetics of Natural History by Rosamond Purcell, Christoph Irmscher

The Poetics of Natural History

Rosamond Purcell, Christoph Irmscher

403 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram’s botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale’s museum to P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, infamo...

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