Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Curious Beasties
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-72529-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between thezoological 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talairach, Laurence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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’.- Chapter 6: Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

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.