The Social Dinosaur

The Life of the Mesozoic in the Popular Imagination

Dr Will Tattersdill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350010727 (ISBN)

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A history of Dinosaurs in popular literature and culture, from the Victorian age to the present, this book is the first to explore the many ways in which the prehistoric creatures have seized the public imagination. The Social Dinosaur charts the ways in which cultural attitudes to dinosaurs have changed over time, from the showcase displays of Victorian museums, through the popular science fiction tales of Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury to the blockbuster Jurassic Park film franchise. Extensively illustrated throughout, the book also examines how dinosaurs have been used in educational texts and popular science writing to fire the imagination of young children and the general public and provide a vivid case study of the intersection of science and culture over the last 150 years.

Will Tattersdill is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Science Fiction and the Fin-de-Siecle Periodical Press (2016).

Introduction
1. The Second Extinction
2. Land Apart from Time
3. Pigeon Holes
4. The Past is a Fantasy World
5. The Asteroid Misses
Conclusion - The Thing and the Whole of the Thing
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.2026
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Science and Literature
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781350010727 / 9781350010727
Zustand	Neuware