Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties (1st ed. 2021) (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030725273

Related ISBNs:

9783030725266

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/27/21

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Science, Teens, Animals, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Medicine

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