Book ID: CBB001552229

Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Empathy, Education, Entertainment (2014)

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Cowie, Helen (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: ix + 256 pp.; ill.
Language: English

In an era of overseas exploration and imperial expansion, exotic animals were among the many foreign commodities to appear on British soil. They were a source of fascination to people across the social spectrum and served simultaneously as objects of entertainment, enlightenment and reflection. Focusing on zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain explores how contemporaries thought about rare animals, where they encountered them and what symbolic, pedagogic and scientific value they attached to them. Helen Cowie uses animal exhibitions as a vehicle through which to examine issues of race, class, gender and colonialism. She devotes particular attention to travelling menageries, whose appeal transcended social boundaries and whose star exhibits included female lion tamers, 'ravenous hyenas' and pistol-firing elephants.

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Authors & Contributors
Casado, Santos
Lorenzo Vanni
Claudia Soares
S. Farina
Nance, Susan
Karen Karen Lloyd D'Onofrio
Concepts
Taxidermy
Exhibits
Zoology
Museums
Natural history
Collectors and collecting
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
London (England)
Spain
Lisbon (Portugal)
Madrid (Spain)
Institutions
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Pisa
Walt Disney Company
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Università di Pisa
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