 | The Mind Is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought Subjects: Collectors and collecting -- History -- 17th century -- Case studies; Collectors and collecting -- History -- 18th century -- Case studies; Museums -- Curatorship -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century -- Case studies; Museums -- Curatorship -- E; The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection. Sean Silver is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Sean Silver's The Mind is a Collection is a two-part intellectual project featuring a virtual museum along with his book, The Mind is a Collection, which serves as both scholarly study and an exhibit catalogue. |
