Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found Objects
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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue. Things Speaking for Themselves PART ONE. TERMS AND CONTEXTS Chapter One. Leaving Room to Guess Political Bric-a-Brac What’s Really the Matter with Artifacts? Digging Up Suspicion and Critique Chapter Two. Ten Thousand Gimcracks Artifacts in the Cities of the Dead Old Relics, New Sciences An Accumulative Virtuoso and an Accumulative Traitor Artifacts’ Affordances PART TWO. CASE STUDIES Chapter Three. Coins: The Most Vocal Monuments Minting Memories Small, Fake, and Two-Faced Numismatic Fictions Chapter Four. Manuscripts: Burnt to a Crust Political Archives and Archival Politics Walpole in the Archives Otranto’s Bloody Records Chapter Five. Weapons: A Wilderness of Arms Fear and Loathing in the Tower of London The Weapons of the Ancients and the Moderns Knight-Errantry and Errant Knights Chapter Six. Grave Goods: The Kings’ Four Bodies Embalming Sovereignty Reanimating the Body Exhuming Tyrants Vital Poetics Afterword. The Artifactual Form Notes Works Cited Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W
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