Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature : how the 'terrible lizard' became a transatlantic cultural icon /

When 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to a series of poorly known British fossils conceived as bulky lizards. Subsequent American discoveries like Brontosaurus, unearthed later in the century, proved that dinosaurs were far stranger than British experts had imagined. By the early...

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