Artifacts: how we think and write about found objects
"The book is a study of the artifacts that antiquarians (a.k.a. antiquaries) collected in the long eighteenth century. The author considers what objects drew their attention and how they interpreted and wrote about them--in politically charged ways and not with pure historical objectivity as they claimed. The book brings together material studies and literary studies. Part 1 presents a theory of the artifact, and part 2 presents case studies of particular artifacts: coins, manuscripts, weapons,…
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- Full title :Artifacts : how we think and write about found objects / Crystal B. Lake.
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"The book is a study of the artifacts that antiquarians (a.k.a. antiquaries) collected in the long eighteenth century. The author considers what objects drew their attention and how they interpreted and wrote about them--in politically charged ways and not with pure historical objectivity as they claimed. The book brings together material studies and literary studies. Part 1 presents a theory of the artifact, and part 2 presents case studies of particular artifacts: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods"--
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore, Maryland
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 261 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781421436494, 1421436493, 9781421436500, 1421436507
- oclc:on1108810189
- LC Classification:CC100
- Dewey Decimal:930.1
Table of Contents
Prologue. Things speaking for themselves -- Leaving room to guess -- Ten thousand gimcracks -- Coins : the most vocal monuments -- Manuscripts : burnt to a crust -- Weapons : a wilderness of arms -- Grave goods : the kings' four bodies -- Afterword. The artifactual form.
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