MAGPIES, SQUIRRELS AND THIEVES: HOW THE VICTORIANS COLLECTED THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 07861211B45553

English Summary/英文概要： During the nineteenth century, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Drawing on journals, eye-witness accounts and news reports, Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the period’s most intriguing collectors, following their hazardous journeys across the globe. Closer to home, it explores the perils of dodgy dealing and forgery, the cut-throat world of the fashionable London market and the competitive spirit that drove the country’s collectors, to build a picture of a fascinating world in the midst of change. From John Charles Robinson, curator of the new South Kensington Museum (known to us now as the Victoria and Albert) and his struggles with his superiors over the direction of the museum’s collections, to Charlotte Schreiber, an aristocratwho shocked London Society by her marriages, first to an industrialist, and subsequently to the tutor of her children; from silversmith Joseph Mayer in London and Liverpool to doctor Stephen Wootton Bushell in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop traces the development of Victorian Britain’s obsession with the collecting of beautiful things, both private and public. Along the way she explores how the modern roles of dealer, collector and curator emerged; the expansion of local and provincial museums; how collecting became a middleclass pastime, rather than being confined to the aristocracy, while the involvement of women and the impact of empire expanded the notions of what was collectable: from china and the oriental decorative arts to fans and playing cards. And we see how the Victorian era saw the emergence of a newfound obsession with things, with possessions and how they reveal our taste and status to others - one that remains with us to this day.

Contents
Catching the Collecting Bug
1 Exhibition Road, London, 1862
2 The Useful and the Beautiful
3 A Public Duty and a Private Preoccupation
Making Museums: Collecting as a Career
4 On the Banks of the Seine
5 The Battle of South Kensington
6 The Tricks of the Trade
7 Changing Times
Ransacking and Revolution: The European Crusade
8 Mrs Schreiber’s Big Red Bag
9 Pushing and Panting and Pinching their Way
10 The Gourd-shaped Bottle
Pride, Passion and Loss: Collecting for Love
11 Waiting for the Rain to Stop
12 Mummies, Crocodiles and Shoes for a Queen
13 The Treasures of the North
14 A Larger World
Fashion, Fine Dining and Forgeries: Dealing in Society
15 Rossetti’s Peacock
16 A Notorious Squabble
17 The Fake Flora
Collecting the Empire: In Pursuit of the Exotic
18 The Route to Peking
19 The Promise of the East
20 Collecting Without Boundaries

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 亨利．詹姆斯曾說：『每一件物品都有跡可尋，造就現在的世界』
收藏物品的狂熱是現今社會才有的現象？
原本只是私人收藏的小癖好，卻改變了整個國家
英國約翰羅斯金博物館館長Jacqueline Yallop
以大量史料佐證，揭開收藏狂的歷史發展

19世紀，英國在維多利亞女王的帶領之下躍居世界霸權，也由此開始，全英國陷入收藏各種物品的狂熱。
經常對外征戰的大不列顛王國，將全世界的珍寶都搬回自己家裡。維多利亞女王本人就是個收藏家，特別喜愛美麗的物品，她的收藏慾望讓交易商、收藏家和博物館館長等職業崛起，各地博物館紛紛成立。由於收藏家之間的強烈競爭意識，倫敦時尚圈的交易活動變的奸詐狡猾，而且時常出現偽造品。收藏物品不再是上流社會專屬的活動，反倒變成中產階級的消遣。
本書蒐羅大量當時的日記、帳單和新聞報導以佐證，由此可見，收集狂並不是現代社會新興的癖好，而是其來有自…….(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：BBC History, The Independent, The Times,等媒體推薦

Review
’In Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves, Jacqueline Yallop throws the windows wide, showing how nineteenth-century collections rose and fell, and, through the lives of the collectors, how the Victorians thought. Her book is original, intelligent - and highly entertaining.’---Judith Flanders

’A tremendous book, brimming over with strange compelling images and glittering morsels to tempt the magpie reader. This really is a cabinet of curiosities, delights and revelations.’---Alexandra Harris

About the Author/作者介绍： Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth-century literature at Sheffield University. She has been Curator of the John Ruskin Museum in Sheffield and writes regularly for the Times Higher Education Supplement. She lives in France.
Jacqueline Yallop在牛津大學(Oxford)主修英語，之後她到約翰羅斯金博物館(John Ruskin Museum)擔任館長，並為《泰晤士高等教育增刊》(Times Higher Education Supplement)撰寫藝術與博物館相關的文章。她自2003年起在雪菲爾大學(Sheffield University)攻讀博士學位，專攻維多利亞時期的藝術與文學。

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