Title The mind is a collection : case studies in eighteenth-century thought / Sean Silver

Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Material texts Material texts. Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface : Welcome To The Museum -- Introduction -- Case 1. Metaphor -- Case 2. Design -- Case 3. Digression -- Case 4. Inwardness -- Case 5. Conception -- Case 6. Dispossession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection Analysis Cultural Studies Literature Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Collectors and collecting -- History -- 17th century -- Case studies Collectors and collecting -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies Museums -- Curatorship -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century -- Case studies Museums -- Curatorship -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies Imagination (Philosophy) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Collectors and collecting Imagination (Philosophy) Intellectual life Museums -- Curatorship SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043302 England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043303 Subject England England -- London Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015013299 ISBN 0812291565 9780812291568

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