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Author | : Richard Fallon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108834000 |
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Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Author | : Richard Fallon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108996167 |
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When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
Author | : Sarah Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1108831516 |
Download Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.
Author | : Dennis Denisoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108998348 |
Download Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.
Author | : Matthew Rowlinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2024-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009409956 |
Download Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.
Author | : Fraser Riddell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2022-04-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108996337 |
Download Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Linda Hughes |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316512843 |
Download Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.
Author | : Alistair Robinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-10-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009022393 |
Download Vagrancy in the Victorian Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.
Author | : Francesca Mackenney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2022-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009084089 |
Download Birdsong, Speech and Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Author | : Lauren Gillingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1009296566 |
Download Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.