Parlor Ponds : The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Promiscuous Vision: The Visual Affinities of the Home Aquarium -- Chapter 2: Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments: Early British Aquarium Writing -- Chapter 3: The Toy of the Day: American Aquarium Writing, 1850-1915 -- Chapter 4: Toy Fish -- Chapter 5: The Domestic Aquarium -- Chapter 6: "Foreign in the Domestic Sense": Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium -- Conclusion: Reefer Madness -- Notes -- Index.
The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium.
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