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Title Early modern zoology : the construction of animals in science, literature and the visual arts / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel and Paul J. Smith
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxvii, 648 pages)) : illustrations (some color)
Series Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 7
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 7.
Contents VOLUME ONE; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Editors; List of Contributors; Introduction (Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Paul J. Smith); Colour Plates; ZOOLOGY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE; THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMALIN ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTENTS VOLUME TWO; THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN ITS EARLY MODERN USE AND ABUSE; THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ANIMAL IN LITERATURE AND IN THE VISUAL ARTS; Index Nominum
Summary How does man define his relation to the animal world? Which aspects are considered important, which are suppressed? This volume intends to present a discussion of the representation of animals in literary, pictorial and scholarly discourses, in the historical and material context of early modern Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Chapters in English, with 2 in German and 1 in French
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Subject Zoology -- History
Zoology -- history
NATURE -- Animals -- General.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
Zoology
Tiersymbolik
Tiere Motiv
Raritätenkammer
Zoologie
Entomologie
Tiere
Tierdarstellung
Menagerie
Zoologischer Garten
Dierkunde.
Bellettrie.
Beeldende kunsten.
Zoologi -- historia.
Djur i litteraturen.
Djur i konsten.
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Enenkel, K. A. E.
Smith, P. J. (Paul J.)
ISBN 9789047422365
9047422368