Book ID: CBB001033391

A Colossal Hoax: The Giant from Cardiff That Fooled America (2009)

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Tribble, Scott (Author)


Rowman & Littlefield


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xvii + 311 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Friedman, Lester D.
Mueller, Eddy Von
McCausland, Elly
Pérez-Fernández, Francisco
Burns, Elizabeth Iris
Zeman, Scott C.
Journals
Victorian Literature and Culture
Science as Culture
Journal of Social History
Journal of Popular Culture
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Psychiatry
Publishers
Rutgers University Press
University of Texas at Austin
State University of New York at Buffalo
University of California Press
State University of New York Press
Routledge
Concepts
Popular culture
Science and culture
Teratology; monsters
Science and literature
Deceptions; hoaxes; frauds
Mass media
People
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Tesla, Nikola
Tereshkova, Valentina
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Linton, Eliza Lynn
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
New England (U.S.)
Russia
Europe
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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