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OverviewAnimals, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laurence TalairachPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9783030725297ISBN 10: 3030725294 Pages: 309 Publication Date: 29 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Figures Introduction 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’ Epilogue Select Bibliography IndexReviews“Talairaich has masterfully synthesized a vast and rich array of research on both obscure and familiar children’s texts, tracing numerous allusions back to their origins and teasing apart the network of ideas in Victorian museum culture.” (Anna McCullough, Modern Language Review, Vol. 118 (3), July, 2023) “By weaving together histories of children’s literature and animal collections, Talairach offers in Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties a useful revision of both of those histories. ... the most impressive feature of this book is the way that it, too, is a collection, an astounding one at that. Talairach brings together a tremendous array of primary and secondary sources to offer within this monograph his own unrivaled collection of curious beasties.” (Virginia Zimmerman, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (3), 2023) “Talairaich has masterfully synthesized a vast and rich array of research on both obscure and familiar children’s texts, tracing numerous allusions back to their origins and teasing apart the network of ideas in Victorian museum culture.” (Anna McCullough, Modern Language Review, Vol. 118 (3), July, 2023) Author InformationLaurence 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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