Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-cen...
Cowie, Helen,

 

  • Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain :empathy, education, entertainment /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 712/.50942
    書名/作者: Exhibiting animals in nineteenth-century Britain : : empathy, education, entertainment // Helen Cowie.
    作者: Cowie, Helen,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: 1800 - 1899
    標題: Zoos - History - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Zoos.
    標題: Great Britain.
    ISBN: 1137384441 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137384447 (electronic bk.)
    內容註: 1. The Lions of London -- 2. Zoo, Community and Civic Pride -- 3. Elephants in the High Street -- 4. Animals Wholesale and Retail -- 5. Seeing the Elephant -- 6. Cruelty and Compassion -- 7. Dangerous Frolicking -- 8. In the Lions' Den -- Conclusion.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137384447
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