The Poetics of Natural History

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from Joihn 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, infamously characterized by Henry James as "halls of...

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title The Poetics of Natural History
title_auth The Poetics of Natural History
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title_full The Poetics of Natural History Christoph Irmscher
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