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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2021
      04 November 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108989008
      9781108834001
      9781108984393
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108989008
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 304 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.444kg, 304 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, History, History of Science: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (132)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, History, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (132)
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    When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.

    Reviews

    '… I enjoyed his book, and recommend it.'

    A. M. Lucas Source: Archives of Natural History

    ‘Fallon has introduced readers to a wealth of dinosaur-adjacent literature, some of which will be familiar but much of which is guaranteed to be new to readers. And he has accomplished an exciting coup, by convincing twenty-first-century readers to see something as utterly familiar as a dinosaur as a strange collection of beasts, a category still in negotiation.’

    Alison Laurence - Victorian Studies

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