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A literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century, antiquaries--wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians--used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self-evident, tell people about the past? In Artifacts , Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that were most frequently found and cataloged in Enlightenment-era England: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods. Following these prized objects as they made their way into popular culture, Lake develops new interpretations of works by Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others. Rereading these authors with the artifact in mind uncovers previously unrecognized allusions that unravel works we thought we knew well. In this new history of antiquarianism and, by extension, historiography, Lake reveals that artifacts rarely acted as agents of fact, as those who studied them would have claimed. Instead, she explains, artifacts are objects unlike any other. Fragmented and from another time or place, artifacts invite us to fill in their shapes and complete their histories with our imaginations. Composed of body as well as spirit and located in the present as well as the past, artifacts inspire speculative reconstructions that frequently contradict one another. Lake's history and theory of the artifact will be of particular importance to scholars of material culture and forms. This fascinating book provides curious readers with new ways of evaluating the relationships that exist between texts and objects.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
1421436507
ISBN-13
9781421436500
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038849215

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Author
Crystal B. Lake
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, Modern / 18th Century, General, Semiotics & Theory, Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Illustrator
Yes

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9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

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Book Title
Artifacts : How We Think and Write about Found Objects
Lc Classification Number
Cc100.L34 2020
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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Artifacts is a fresh, perceptive examination of the intellectual roots and cultural diffusion of British antiquarianism during the long eighteenth century.--Barrett D. Kalter, author of Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England, 1660-1780|9781421436500|, While this review singles out only a few, Lake's examination of the narratives generated by many eighteenth-century first responders to coins, weapons, manuscripts and grave goods, is thorough and illuminating, as are her detailed and scholarly readings of literary texts where artifacts shape form and content.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Things Speaking for Themselves Part I. Terms and Contexts Chapter 1. Leaving Room to Guess Chapter 2. Ten Thousand Gimcracks Part II. Case Studies Chapter 3. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Chapter 4. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Chapter 5. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Chapter 6. Grave Goods: The Kings' Four Bodies Afterword. The Artifactual Form Notes Works Cited Index, List of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsPrologue. Things Speaking for ThemselvesPart I. Terms and ContextsChapter 1. Leaving Room to Guess Chapter 2. Ten Thousand GimcracksPart II. Case StudiesChapter 3. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Chapter 4. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Chapter 5. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Chapter 6. Grave Goods: The Kings' Four BodiesAfterword. The Artifactual FormNotesWorks CitedIndex
Copyright Date
2020
Format
Trade Paperback
Lccn
2019-017729
Dewey Decimal
930.1
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Publication Year
2020
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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