Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850-1970 - Brossura

Hamera, Judith

 
9780472051663: Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850-1970
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ISBN 10: 0472051660 ISBN 13: 9780472051663
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2012

Sinossi

Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850–1970 examines the myriad cultural meanings of the American home aquarium during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and argues that the home aquarium provided its enthusiasts with a potent tool for managing the challenges of historical change, from urbanization to globalization. The tank could be a window to an alien world, a theater for domestic melodrama, or a vehicle in a fantastical undersea journey. Its residents were seen as inscrutable and wholly disposable “its,” as deeply loved and charismatic individuals, and as alter egos by aquarists themselves.

Parlor Ponds fills a gap in the growing field of animal studies by showing that the tank is an emblematic product of modernity, one using elements of exploration, technology, science, and a commitment to rigorous observation to contain anxieties spawned by industrialization, urbanization, changing gender roles, and imperial entanglements. Judith Hamera engages advertisements, images, memoirs, public aquarium programs, and enthusiast publications to show how the history of the aquarium illuminates complex cultural attitudes toward nature and domestication, science and religion, gender and alterity, and national conquest and environmental stewardship with an emphasis on the ways it illuminates American public discourse on colonial and postcolonial expansion.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Judith Hamera is Professor of Performance Studies and head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University.

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Editore
Univ of Michigan Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0472051660
ISBN 13 
9780472051663
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
268
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0472071661 ISBN 13:  9780472071661
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2012
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