{"product_id":"9783030725266","title":"Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Curious Beasties","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Curious Beasties\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eTalairach, Laurence\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnimals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relationship between the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ezoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-05-28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030725266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-72527-3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 309\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46612131905676,"sku":"9783030725266","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030725266.jpg?v=1773283890","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030725266","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}