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

Index

265 index Agassiz, Louis, 43, 69, 122, 162, 246n79 Ahmed, Sarah, 50, 236n1 Alcott, Louisa May, 119, 247n112 Allen, David Elliston, 1, 56, 66, 80, 83, 227n3, 236n3, 237n7, 237n15, 239n50, 242n102, 242n111 American Museum, the, 21, 29, 30, 33, 88, 91–92, 103, 104, 109, 232n51, 243n33 American Parlor Aquarium, The (Collier and Hoop), 113, 246n94 American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 134 Animal studies, 126–27, 248n2 Anthropomorphism, 48, 71, 129, 137–50 Apartheid, 215–16 Aquarinomics, 164–67, 169–70, 175, 182, 190, 194 Aquarium building, 26–27 as collection, 22–23, 34, 49, 52, 119 contemporary ownership of, 13 decorations for, 8 as diorama, 24, 28, 37–38, 45, 234n70, 234nn72–73 and evolution, 45, 47, 49 excess and, 1, 3, 11–12, 174, 182, 221, 226 as garden, 17, 19–20, 22, 23, 29, 49, 75, 87, 89–90, 120, 126, 193 as “happy family,” 9, 80, 85, 103–13, 119, 124, 125, 140, 147–48, 160–61, 170–72, 179, 187, 190, 192–93, 195, 207, 216, 226 as landscape, 17–24 and modernity, 2–4, 8, 10, 12–13, 16, 24, 43, 45, 49, 50–51, 52, 55, 66, 69, 76, 79–80, 83, 84–85, 102, 114, 127–30, 135–36, 137–38, 145, 147, 160, 167–68, 173, 176, 188, 193–94, 196–99, 201, 204, 207–8, 211, 213, 222, 224–25 nativism and, 121–22, 161–70, 194 as panorama, 2, 3, 17, 24, 28, 34–38, 40, 44, 47, 102, 175, 230n19, 233nn59–61, 233n65 picture frame construction in, 19, 27 as prison, 82–83, 85, 107–9, 147, 213 as science, 2, 8, 11, 27–28, 37, 61, 80, 85, 90, 94, 111–20, 122–24, 128, 139, 145, 165, 176, 184, 195, 208, 213, 218 as the sea, 10, 17, 19, 42, 44, 51, 55, 57–63, 75, 83, 87–90, 96, 98–101, 107, 109, 111, 117, 124, 140, 161, 171, 193, 200, 224 sex in, 170, 172–74, 181, 183–90 as television, 8, 17, 38, 234n76 as theater, 8, 9–10, 11–12, 17, 21, 24, 28–34, 37, 85, 102–3, 107, 109, 118, 120, 127, 175, 224 as travel, 24, 29, 36, 39–49, 63, 75, 127, 160, 201–18, 221–22, 225 typical con‹gurations of, 4–8 as window, 3, 17, 24–28, 36, 37, 117, 133, 193, 203, 221 as world, 2, 9–10, 12, 16, 19, 21, 23, 36, 58, 75, 80, 88–90, 101, 106, 110, 120, 141, 144, 160, 170, 173, 179, 190, 192, 194–97, 199, 201, 208, 216–17, 222 versus zoos, 20–21 Aquarium (journal), 121, 132, 146, 147, 148, 168, 197, 201, 202, 247n118 Aquarium, American and British antecedents, 85–86, 90 during the Civil War, 109–11 Great Depression and, 11, 141, 160, 164, 166, 202, 210 progressivism and, 85, 111, 112–22 societies, 111, 120–22 transcendentalist rhetoric and, 95–96 as urban, 8, 92, 101–9 Aquarium, reef, 12, 17, 66, 108, 127, 177, 219–20, 224–25 Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, The (Gosse), 51, 57–74, 262n3 American reviews of, 235n93 citational solidarity in, 66–69 depiction of aquarium residents in, 69–72 practical advice in, 72–74 rural and urban imagery in, 59–66 Aquarium craze, British, 1, 55, 63, 76, 91, 109, 121 Aquarium hobby demographics of, 8–9 Aquarium hobby (continued) ecological consequences of, 11–12, 224–25 pro‹tability of, 13 Aquarium Journal, 121, 123, 156, 177, 203 Aquarium journals, 10–11, 111, 117, 120–23, 130, 161–62, 248n120 Arcara Curviceps, 189–91 (‹g. 14), 192 Armstrong, Isobel, 25, 27 Atavism, 47–48, 54 Audubon, John James, 43, 53, 122, 162, 246n79 Axelrod, Herbert, 173, 214–18, 239n45 Baker, Steve, 128, 139 Balibar, Étienne, 150 Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 21, 29–32, 91–93, 103–4, 111–12, 165, 172, 222, 232n48 Barnum’s Aquarial Gardens (Boston), 30 Bateman, Rev. Gregory, 6 (‹g. 3), 118, 134 Bauman, Zygmunt, 3, 219 Bederman, Gail, 246n98, 247n101 Berman, Marshall, 2 “Black hole of Calcutta,” 78, 83, 144, 241n97 Blair, Ann, 28 Blanche (lion‹sh), 13, 126, 135, 155, 157 Bleak House (Dickens), 61 Book of the Aquarium, The (Hibberd), 241n84 Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens, 21, 30, 31 (‹g. 5), 32 (‹g. 6), 92, 104 Bowls, gold‹sh, 24–26, 88, 133 Brunner, Bernd, 24, 177, 225–26 Butler, Henry D., 19, 21, 30, 32, 33, 37...