Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties

by Laurence Talairach

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030725294
• ISBN13: 9783030725297
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages