Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England.(Book Review)

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Marjorie Swann. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. (Material Texts.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 280. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3610-6.

In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann makes subtle and at times quite revealing connections between different areas of English early modem culture that have already commanded serious attention within the field. Her book focuses on collections both literal and literary. By pairing these two realms-that of the collector of curiosities and that of the writer who "collects" his own ...

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