Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain : curious beasties / Laurence Talairach.
Talairach, Laurence.
2021
PR990
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Title Animals, museum culture and children's literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain : curious beasties / Laurence Talairach.
Author Talairach, Laurence.
ISBN 9783030725273 (electronic bk.)
3030725278 (electronic bk.)
303072526X
9783030725266
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72527-3
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-72527-3 doi
Call Number PR990
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/9282
Summary 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. Laurence Talairach is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and associate researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Centre for the History of Science and Technology, France. Her research specialises in the interrelations between nineteenth-century literature, medicine and science.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 7, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in animals and literature, 2634-6338
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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
Chapter 6: Epilogue.

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