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The Young Naturalist's Journey, Or, The Travels of Agnes Merton and Her Mamma
The Young Naturalist, Or, The Travels of Agnes Merton and Her Mamma
Young Naturalist, Or, The Travels of Agnes Merton and Her Mamma
The Young Naturalists' Journey, Or the Travels of Agnes Merton and Her Mama. With Twenty-three Engravings
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In Nature's Name
Author: Barbara T. Gates
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 0226284468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some—like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits—are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as varied as the women who produced them. They include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Indian Alps, poetry and fiction, and marvelous tales of nature for children. Special features of the book include a detailed chronology placing each selection in its historical and literary context; biographical sketches of each author's life and works; a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature; and over sixty illustrations. An ideal introduction to women's powerful and diverse responses to the natural world, In Nature's Name will be treasured by anyone interested in natural history, women, or Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Laurence Talairach
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 3030725278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.
Victorian Popularizers of Science
Author: Bernard Lightman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-10-15
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0226481174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and in ways they could appreciate. Victorian Popularizers of Science focuses on this important group of men and women who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific, influential, and interesting popularizers of the day, investigating the dramatic lecturing techniques, vivid illustrations, and accessible literary styles they used to communicate with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writers, their publishers, and their public, Lightman offers new insights into the role of women in scientific inquiry, the market for scientific knowledge, tensions between religion and science, and the complexities of scientific authority in nineteenth-century Britain.
Kindred Nature
Author: Barbara T. Gates
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780226284439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Centers on what a number of British Victorian and Edwardian women said and did in the name of nature -- what part they played in the cultural reconstruction of nature that transpired in the years just proceeding the publication of Darwin's major work and in the wake of the Darwinian revolution"--Introduction.
