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Talairach-Vielmas Laurence |
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Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain : curious beasties / / Laurence Talairach |
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Ser. |
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Wild and Exotic 'Beasties' in Early Children's Literature -- Displaying 'Curious Beasties' -- Eighteenth-Century Literary 'Beasties' -- 'Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright': Petted, Performing and Caged 'Beasties' -- Chapter 3: Victorian Menageries -- Live Animals and Victorian Popular Science -- F for Ferocious? Abecedaria in the Nineteenth Century -- Showcaging the Empire? 'Curious Beasties' and Victorian Children's Periodicals -- Chapter 4: Young Collectors -- A 'Taste for Collecting' -- Collecting the World -- Chapter 5: Nonsense 'Beasties' -- Edward Lear's Odd Collections and Reconstructions -- Rewriting Charles Kingsley's Specimens: Lewis Carroll's Mad Museology -- Carroll's 'Fabulous Monsters' Through the Looking-Glass -- 'Why, the Taxidermy' -- Chapter 6: Prehistoric 'Beasties' -- The Crystal Palace Gardens and the Popularisation of Extinction -- The 'Beasties' on Noah's Ark and Hawkins's 'Antediluvian Dragons' -- Noah's Arks, Extinct 'Beasties' and Children's Fiction -- Edith Nesbit's Dinosaurus and Megawhatsitsname -- 'Three Pounds and a Quarter of Solid Psammead' -- Chapter 7: Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
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