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In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain's amassing of wild skins, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials, as well as of recent theories concerning skin and touch, to examine the collecting and exhibiting practices of individuals, museums, and a provincial zoo. She foc
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Preamble Theorizing about Skin; Chapter 1a Industry, Empire, Portraiture, and Skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester; Chapter 2 A Skin Disorder; Chapter 3 Stuff and Nonsense: Skin and Victorian Animal Portraiture; Chapter 4 Touch: Reaching through the Bars; Chapter 5 Wild Skins and Mapping the Victorian Landscape;
About the author
Ann C. Colley is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University College of New York at Buffalo. She has published numerous articles and books, including Victorians in the Mountains, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination, Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture, The Search for Synthesis in Literature and Art: The Paradox of Space, Edward Lear and the Critics, and Tennyson and Madness.
Summary
In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain’s amassing of wild skins, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials, as well as of recent theories concerning skin and touch, to examine the collecting and exhibiting practices of individuals, museums, and a provincial zoo. She foc
