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

Contents

contents Introduction 1 chapter 1. Promiscuous Vision: The Visual Af‹nities of the Home Aquarium 15 chapter 2. Rural Rambles and Rustic Adornments: Early British Aquarium Writing 50 chapter 3. The Toy of the Day: American Aquarium Writing, 1850–1915 84 chapter 4. Toy Fish 125 chapter 5. The Domestic Aquarium 159 chapter 6. “Foreign in the Domestic Sense”: Tropical Fish and the Transnational Aquarium 193 Conclusion: Reefer Madness 219 Notes 227 Index 265 ...