Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature : how the 'terrible lizard' became a transatlantic cultural icon
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Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature : how the 'terrible lizard' became a transatlantic cultural icon
(Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 132)
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature : how the "terrible lizard" became a transatlantic cultural icon
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-277) and index
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Description
When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries-including Brontosaurus and Triceratops-proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
Table of Contents
- 1. Reclaiming Authority: Henry Neville Hutchinson, Popular Science, and the Construction of the Dinosaur
- 2. Reinventing Wonderland: Jabberwocks, Grotesque Monsters, and Dinosaurian Maladaptation
- 3. Rearticulating the Nation: Transatlantic Fiction and the Dinosaurs of Empire
- 4.Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology
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