دانلود کتاب Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties

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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Wild and Exotic ‘Beasties’ in Early Children’s Literature
Displaying ‘Curious Beasties’
Eighteenth-Century Literary ‘Beasties’
‘Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright’: Petted, Performing and Caged ‘Beasties’
Chapter 3: Victorian Menageries
Live Animals and Victorian Popular Science
F for Ferocious? Abecedaria in the Nineteenth Century
Showcaging the Empire? ‘Curious Beasties’ and Victorian Children’s Periodicals
Chapter 4: Young Collectors
A ‘Taste for Collecting’
Collecting the World
Chapter 5: Nonsense ‘Beasties’
Edward Lear’s Odd Collections and Reconstructions
Rewriting Charles Kingsley’s Specimens: Lewis Carroll’s Mad Museology
Carroll’s ‘Fabulous Monsters’ Through the Looking-Glass
‘Why, the Taxidermy’
Chapter 6: Prehistoric ‘Beasties’
The Crystal Palace Gardens and the Popularisation of Extinction
The ‘Beasties’ on Noah’s Ark and Hawkins’s ‘Antediluvian Dragons’
Noah’s Arks, Extinct ‘Beasties’ and Children’s Fiction
Edith Nesbit’s Dinosaurus and Megawhatsitsname
‘Three Pounds and a Quarter of Solid Psammead’
Chapter 7: Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index