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Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain - Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain - Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps (Hardcover, New Ed)
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What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece,
Manchester's Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all
have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic,
and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain's craze
for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use
of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations,
and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of
specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British
public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back
exotic animals and birds for study and classification by anatomists
and zoologist, it soon became apparent that collecting skins rather
than live animals or birds was a relatively more manageable
endeavor. Colley looks at the collecting, exhibiting, and
portraying of animal skins to show their importance as trophies of
empire and representations of identity. While a zoo might display
skins to promote and glorify Britain's colonial achievements,
Colley suggests that the reality of collecting was characterized
more by chaos than imperial order. For example, Edward Lear's
commissioned illustrations of the Earl of Derby's extensive
collection challenge the colonial's or collector's commanding gaze,
while the Victorian public demonstrated a yearning to connect with
their own wildness by touching the skins of animals. Colley
concludes with a discussion of the metaphorical uses of wild skins
by Gerard Manley Hopkins and other writers, exploring the idea of
skin as a locus of memory and touch where one's past can be traced
in the same way that nineteenth-century mapmakers charted a
landscape. Throughout the book Colley calls upon recent theories
about the nature and function of skin and touch to structure her
discussion of the Victorian fascination with wild animal skins.
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