Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature - How the ''Terrible Lizard'' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon

Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

List of contents

1. Reclaiming Authority: Henry Neville Hutchinson, Popular Science, and the Construction of the Dinosaur; 2. Reinventing Wonderland: Jabberwocks, Grotesque Monsters, and Dinosaurian Maladaptation; 3. Rearticulating the Nation: Transatlantic Fiction and the Dinosaurs of Empire; 4.Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology

About the author

RICHARD FALLON is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Summary

Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that American museums made dinosaurs famous, this book argues that British and American popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a transatlantic cultural icon between 1880 and 1920.

Foreword

Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

Product details

• Authors: Richard Fallon, Richard (University of Birmingham) Fallon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781108984393
• ISBN: 978-1-108-98439-3
• No. of pages: 303
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Science, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism