{"product_id":"9781350010727","title":"Social Dinosaur The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination","description":"\u003ch3\u003eExplorations in Science and Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSocial Dinosaur\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWill Tattersdill | Lara Choksey | John Holmes | Anton Kirchhofer | Janine Rogers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSince first they emerged into the Victorian limelight, dinosaurs have fascinated generations of artists, scientists, and general readers. This book approaches their history from a literary-critical perspective, arguing that the enormous and enduring popularity of Mesozoic fauna offers a fresh way to understand the relationship between the arts and sciences. We tend to treat those two as opposites -- but dinosaurs, Will Tattersdill argues, cannot exist without an entanglement of both evidence and imagination. Tracing these entanglements across scientific works, literary texts, artworks, and museum displays of all kinds from the nineteenth century to the present day, this book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esuggests that the history of dinosaurs is one in which the boundaries between categories of knowledge, genre, and species are constantly being renegotiated.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWill Tattersdill\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e06 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350010727\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51515390394508,"sku":"9781350010727","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_984dab50-df66-4fc1-820d-50a23cad3d65.jpg?v=1784693482","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350010727","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}