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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature - How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon (Hardcover)
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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature - How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to
fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American
discoveries-including Brontosaurus and Triceratops-proved that
these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at
all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining
Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the
hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this
scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships.
Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American
museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in
turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular
authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire,
progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan
Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite
scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and
imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied
fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
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