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The Victorian Aquarium - Literary Discussions on Nature, Culture, and Science (Hardcover)
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The Victorian Aquarium - Literary Discussions on Nature, Culture, and Science (Hardcover)
Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
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The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that
spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth
century. This book offers an example of how the study of a
particular object can be used to address a broad spectrum of
issues. The Victorian aquarium became in fact a point of
intersection between scientific, technological and cultural trends;
it engaged with issues of class, gender, nationality and
inter-species relations; it drew together home decor and ideals of
domesticity, travel and tourism, exciting discoveries in marine
biology and tensions between competing views of science; it also
marked an important moment in the development of a burgeoning
environmental awareness. Through the analysis of a wide range of
sources, including aquarium manuals, articles and fictional works,
The Victorian aquarium unearths the historical significance of
nineteenth-century tanks, reconstructing their far-ranging cultural
resonance. -- .
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