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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2022  
         
  Article:   BOOK - LAURENCE TALAIRACH, ANIMALS, MUSEUM CULTURE AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN NINETEENTH - CENTURY BRITAIN: CURIOUS BEASTIES, LONDON, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2021, 309 P..

Authors:  IOANA-MARIA ALEXANDRU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Available online: 30 June 2022; Available print: 30 June 2022
pp. 377-380

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Discovered and collected, caged and catalogued, taxidermized and preserved, reconstituted from old bones or imagined into existence, nonhuman others feature prominently in Laurence Talairach’s Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth Century Britain (2021). Exploring the discourses of zoology and palaeontology in relation to children’s literature, Talairach shows, through extensive examples, the development and proliferation of animal-centred books for the younger readership, as well as the distinct moral and ethical paths such literary works forged in the context of British imperial expansion.
 
         
     
         
         
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