Author: James Shirley Hibberd
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Shirley Hibberd
Publisher:
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Category : Apiaries
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Shirley Hibberd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712617604
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Denis Cosgrove
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521389150
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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This book, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image.

Author: Shirley Hibberd
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: John Simons
Publisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1743328745
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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“For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass.” The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen. John Simons uncovers the sweeping consequences of the Victorian obsession with marine animals by looking at naturalist Frank Buckland’s Museum of Economic Fish Culture and the role of fish in the Victorian economy, the development of angling as a sport divided along class lines, the seeding of Empire with British fish and comparisons with aquarium building in Europe, USA and Australia. Goldfish in the Parlour interrogates the craze that took over Victorian England when aquariums “introduced” fish to parks, zoos and parlours.

Author: Silvia Granata
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526151952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book offers an example of how the study of a particular object can be used to address a broad spectrum of issues. The Victorian aquarium became in fact a point of intersection between scientific, technological and cultural trends; it engaged with issues of class, gender, nationality and inter-species relations; it drew together home décor and ideals of domesticity, travel and tourism, exciting discoveries in marine biology and tensions between competing views of science; it also marked an important moment in the development of a burgeoning environmental awareness. Through the analysis of a wide range of sources, including aquarium manuals, articles and fictional works, The Victorian aquarium unearths the historical significance of nineteenth-century tanks, reconstructing their far-ranging cultural resonance.

Author: Thomas Miller
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Judith W. Page
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.

Author: Rachel Poliquin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105963X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.