Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-century Britain, Cowie Helen

Автор: Chris Williams
Название: A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 063122579X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631225799
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Presents 33 essays on the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. This book focuses on the experiences of women as well as of men.

Автор: Dentith
Название: Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 0521123577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521123570
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the British national identity in the works of Scott, Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Morris and Kipling.

Автор: Dawson Gowan
Название: Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
ISBN: 022633273X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226332734
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Описание: Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty--"Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal " Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone. Such extraordinary feats of predictive reasoning relied on the law of correlation, which proposed that each element of an animal corresponds mutually with each of the others, so that a carnivorous tooth must be accompanied by a certain kind of jawbone, neck, stomach, limbs, and feet.
Show Me the Bone tells the story of the rise and fall of this famous claim, tracing its fortunes from Europe to America and showing how it persisted in popular science and literature and shaped the practices of paleontologists long after the method on which it was based had been refuted. In so doing, Gowan Dawson reveals how decisively the practices of the scientific elite were--and still are--shaped by their interactions with the general public.

Автор: Rooney
Название: Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 1137587601 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137587602
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.

Автор: Woods Robert
Название: The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 0521557747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521557740
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book provides a clear interpretation of the causes of demographic change in Britain in the nineteenth century. It combines an examination of migration, marriage patterns, fertility and mortality with a guide to the sources of population data available to historians and demographers.

Автор: Williams Chris, Preucel W. Robert, Maznevski Marth
Название: Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 1405156791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405156790
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Описание: A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as of men.