Animals, museum culture and children's literature in nineteenth-century Britain : curious beasties

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Animals, museum culture and children's literature in nineteenth-century Britain : curious beasties

Laurence Talairach

(Palgrave studies in animals and literature)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2021

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Animals, museum culture and children's literature in 19th century Britain : curious beasties

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-300) and index

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内容説明

Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century-be they alive, stuffed or fossilised-and the development of children's literature at this time. Children's literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children's writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children's literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.

目次

Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Wild and Exotic 'Beasties' in Early Children's Literature Chapter 2: Victorian Menageries Chapter 3: Young Collectors Chapter 4: Nonsense 'Beasties' Chapter 5: Prehistoric 'Beasties' Epilogue Select Bibliography Index

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