The Emergence of the Modern Museum

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources

Jonah Siegel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

404 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973357-6 (ISBN)

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The Emergence of the Modern Museum, a unique compendium of original sources, presents a detailed and dynamic account of the development of the museum and its practices in Britain during a crucial period of formation. From poignant recollections of visits to stately homes to charged debates about the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles or the establishment of an Indian Museum; from early catalogue entries describing the curiosities discovered by Captain Cook to later ones organizing human skulls according to Darwinian principles-this volume offers a representative sample of the diverse, contentious, and often moving ideas that have shaped the modern institution. With original selections, thematic organization, and insightful critical apparatus, this collection makes newly available a wide range of material, including proposals for reform laid out in parliamentary papers, essays by influential theorists and curators, and firsthand accounts of museum-going in the popular press.

Jonah Siegel Siegel is Professor of English at Rutgers University and President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. He is the author of Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition and Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art.

PREFACE; CHRONOLOGY; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: FROM COLLECTION TO MUSEUM; PART TWO: RATIONALIZING THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS; GLOSSARY OF FREQUENTLY CITED COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS; CONTRIBUTORS AND WITNESSES; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.8.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-973357-0 / 0199733570
ISBN-13	978-0-19-973357-6 / 9780199733576
Zustand	Neuware