Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word.…
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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. In subsequent decades, American discoveries--including Brontosaurus and Triceratops--proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all.
Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged