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  title info:
    title: Reimagining dinosaurs in late Victorian and Edwardian literature
    sub title: how the 'terrible lizard' became a transatlantic cultural icon
  name:
    name part: Fallon, Richard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 twentieth century, in an age of opulent museums, 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches a vital but hitherto largely unexplored aspect of this rise to fame, the fiction and popular science writing that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on the fossil displays in American museums, Fallon argues that literature, and especially British literature, was a key site for turning these extinct animals into cultural icons. Popular authors made dinosaurs relevant by relating them to wider concerns of the period, including empire, evolutionary progress and romance. Controversial writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Neville Hutchinson and J.J. Astor IV also used dinosaurs to disparage elitist scientific practices and undermine distinctions between 'scientific writing,' 'popular science' and 'literature.' As a result, the rise of the dinosaurs generated heated transatlantic discussions about the textual form of scientific authority.
  note: Richard Fallon.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Dinosaurs in literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR468.D54 F35 2021
  classification: 820.9/362
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 132
  identifier: 9781108834001
  identifier: 1108834000
  identifier: 9781108984393
  identifier: 1108984398
  identifier: 9781108989008
  identifier: 2021017229
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210607
    record change date: 20230619132417.3
    record identifier: in00004552516