02752nam 2200481 450 991048322720332120230630003159.03-030-72527-8(CKB)4100000011946129(MiAaPQ)EBC6632774(Au-PeEL)EBL6632774(OCoLC)1256257566(EXLCZ)99410000001194612920220126d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnimals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain curious beasties /Laurence TalairachCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2021]©20211 online resource (316 pages)Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Ser.3-030-72526-X 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.Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Ser.Animals in literaturebørne- og ungdomslitteratur.bsup.uhyrer.børnebladehistorisk.Animals in literature.809.93362Talairach-Vielmas Laurence608399MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483227203321Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain2585775UNINA