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.d e vre se r sth g ir llA .ss e rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytis re vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. A m e r i c a n C u r i o s i t (cid:1) .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .ss e rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. This page intentionally left blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. This book was thewinnerof the for .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. Publishedforthe OmohundroInstituteof EarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture, Williamsburg,Virginia,bythe Universityof NorthCarolinaPress, ChapelHill .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. c u r i o s i t (cid:1) of in the .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. TheOmohundroInstituteof EarlyAmericanHistoryandCultureissponsored jointlybytheCollegeofWilliamandMary andtheColonialWilliamsburgFoundation. 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U .6 0 0 2 © Thisvolumereceivedindirectsupportfromanunrestrictedbook thg publicationgrantawardedtotheInstitutebytheL.J.Skaggsand iryp MaryC.SkaggsFoundationofOakland,California. o C cloth paper Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55. To my mother, who always lured me into museums with the promise of food And to my father, whose thoughts, since I can remember, have been on history .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sse rP a n ilo ra C h tro N fo ytisre vin U .6 0 0 2 © th g iryp o C Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. 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Imustbeginwithmyteachers.ThisbookemergedfromtheyearsIwasa graduatestudentintheEnglishDepartmentatStanfordUniversity.Assuch, myadviserthere,JayFliegelman,providedtheconditionsthatmadethese ideaseventuallypossible.Hisparticularmixtureofrigor,merriment,origi- nality,andinterpretivevirtuosity(Icouldgoon)isstillwithmewhenever Iopenatextorlookatanimage.BeforeStanford,Iwas,whileinaPh.D. programinfilmstudiesatBerkeley,convertedtoearlyAmericanstudiesby anotherremarkablescholar,JennyFranchot;itwasshewhofirstmademe feelthatwhenIreadChristopherColumbusorBenjaminFranklinorJohn MarrantthatIhadarrivedatpagescontaininganuncannyrelevance.Sheis sorelymissed.Beforethis,Iwasfortunateenoughtolearnaboutthevisual and literary historyof North America from P. Adams Sitneyat Princeton Universityandtounderstandthroughhimthatinterpretationcanstill,atits best,beoracular. SinceIhavebeenattheUniversityofMichigan,Ihavehadthegreatop- portunitytobesurroundedbyastunninggroupofcolleaguesintheEnglish Department.Thevenuesforsharingmyworkwerenumerous:Idelivered portionsofthisbooktotheEighteenth-CenturyStudiesGroup(thankyou .d evre David Porter), the Early Modern Colloquium (thank you Carla Mazzio), ser sth andtheJuniorFacultyForum(thankyouAlissePortnoyandCathySanok) gir llA andreceivedhelpfuladvicefromallquarters.Thesecolleagues,inparticu- .sse lar,gavemesubstantivefeedbackorreadportionsofthemanuscript:John rP KnottandSaraBlair(whobothreadtheentiredissertationandgavedetailed a n ilo suggestions),JohnWhittier-Ferguson(whohashelpedfrombeforethebe- ra C h ginningandalwaysbeyondthecall),ValerieTraub,LindaGregerson,Julie tro N Ellison,MarjorieLevinson,ArleneKeizer,LincolnFaller,StevenMullaney, fo ytisre JonathanFreedman,MikeSchoenfeldt,JamesMcIntosh,LemuelJohnson, vin AnneGere,andLarryGoldstein.MycolleaguesinHistoryandArtHistory U .6 whohaveprovidedhelpwithsourcesandofferedawiderscholarlyworld 0 0 2 © areCarolKarlsen,SueJuster,DavidHancock,JohnCarson,andRebecca th giryp Zurier. Graduate students in History, English, and Women’s Studies at oC Michiganwhohavelistenedtoandhelpedmeconceptualizemystoryare: HollyDugan(whoalsowasmyresearchassistantduringtwophasesofthe book’screation),SabihaAhmad,ErikaGasser,LaurenLaFauci,LauraWil- Parrish, Susan Scott. American Curiosity : Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World, University of North Carolina Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ucr/detail.action?docID=4321916. Created from ucr on 2018-11-07 20:33:55.
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