Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain : curious beasties / / Laurence Talairach
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Talairach-Vielmas Laurence
|
| Titolo: |
Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain : curious beasties / / Laurence Talairach
|
| Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 809.93362 |
| Soggetto topico: | Animals in literature |
| Soggetto non controllato: | børne- og ungdomslitteratur |
| bsup | |
| uhyrer | |
| børneblade | |
| historisk | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| ISBN: | 3-030-72527-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483227203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Ser.