The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James

by Christoph Irmscher

Book Overview

The Poetics of Natural History is about the "daydreams" of early American naturalists (from 1730 to 1868) and the collections they created around these dreams. Christoph Irmscher explores how, through the acts of organizing physical artifacts and reflecting upon their collections through writings and images, naturalists from John Bartram to Louis Agassiz were making sense of themselves and their world. These collections allowed them, in a way, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813526159
• ISBN13: 9780813526157
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 10.4"