Collecting and historical consciousness in early nineteenth-century Germany / Susan A. Crane.
| Author/creator | Crane, Susan A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000. |
| Description | xv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Spine title | Collecting & historical consciousness in early nineteenth-century Germany |
| Contents | The historical sublime. Asleep among the ruins ; The rhetoric of "waking and winning" ; Of ruins and the sublime ; History-perceived, history-created -- The collection and preservation of historical objects. The rhetoric of "saving" ; Collecting immobile objects: the Denkmäler inventories -- Collective collecting in "the age of associations". Figuring the collector ; Collectors alone and in association: correspondences ; Generations as collectives ; The historical associations / Correspondences: gender, family, and emotion -- Finding form for the content: historical museums. The museum context ; Objects and copies: journals as museums ; Imagined museums ; Real museums -- Collective memory and historical consciousness. "Historical memory and collective memory" ; Collective memory and personal property ; Public spheres, public opinion ; Individual, collective, historical memory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index. |
| LCCN | 00037681 |
| ISBN | 0801437520 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | DD86 .C73 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |