EXHIBITING ANIMALS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN by Helen Cowie ( 9781137384447 )

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EXHIBITING ANIMALS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
EMPATHY, EDUCATION, ENTERTAINMENT

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ISBN 10:

1137384441

ISBN 13:

9781137384447

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

6 June, 2014

Description:

Exotic animals were coveted commodities in nineteenth-century Britain. Spectators flocked to zoos and menageries to see female lion tamers and hungry hippos. Helen Cowie examines zoos and travelling menageries in the period 1800-1880, using animal exhibitions to examine issues of class, gender, imperial culture and animal welfare.

Synopsis:

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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15 black & white illustrations, 1 graphs

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Palgrave Macmillan

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