Ann C Colley

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain

Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In her study of the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended Great Britain's amassing of wild skins, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials, as well as of recent theories concerning skin and touch, to examine the collecting and exhibiting practices of individuals, museums, and a provincial zoo. She focuses on issues of empire, representation, and natural history to examine the meaning, metaphoric uses, and cognitive function of skin for the Victorian public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781472427786
• ISBN-10: 1472427785
• Artikelnr.: 44794426

Autorenporträt

Ann C. Colley is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University College of New York at Buffalo. She has published numerous articles and books, including Victorians in the Mountains, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination, Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture, The Search for Synthesis in Literature and Art: The Paradox of Space, Edward Lear and the Critics, and Tennyson and Madness.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Preamble Theorizing about Skin
Chapter 1a Industry, Empire, Portraiture, and Skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester
Chapter 2 A Skin Disorder
Chapter 3 Stuff and Nonsense: Skin and Victorian Animal Portraiture
Chapter 4 Touch: Reaching through the Bars
Chapter 5 Wild Skins and Mapping the Victorian Landscape