Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and the Monstrous Efts

Shatto, Susan

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“…Anybody writing about the history of palaeontology today is drawing upon the influential work, in the mid‐1970s and onwards, not only of Rudwick but also of Adrian Desmond (e.g., ), Peter Bowler (e.g., ), and Susan Shatto (—this latter a particularly important and readable early study of the relationship between palaeontology and literature). The decade is, I think, not a coincidence: following the discovery by John Ostrom (1938–2005) of the Deinonychus (Ostrom, ), dinosaurs, which had by the interwar years begun to be seen as ponderous and uninteresting swamp creatures, were suddenly vibrant, warm‐blooded, and full of interest.…”

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Work on the Victorian dinosaur: Histories and prehistories of 19th‐century palaeontology

Tattersdill

2017

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In recent studies of Victorian Literature and Science, valuable insights into the history and discursive constitutions of geology, palaeontology, and evolution have often shone a sidelight on the figure of the dinosaur. Few, though, have engaged head‐on with the dinosaur itself as a conceptual category. In discussing why, this article aims to provide the reader with a reading list by which they may themselves begin to explore the Victorian dinosaur—as well as a possible justification for so doing.

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Work on the Victorian dinosaur: Histories and prehistories of 19th‐century palaeontology

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2017

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Tennyson In and Out of Time

Collins¹

1981

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The Comparative History of A Tale of Two Cities

Griffiths¹

2013

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This essay examines Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities through the defining historical mode of the nineteenth-century historicism: comparative history. An under-appreciated response to the failure of stadial and progressive accounts to explain the French Revolution, comparative history drew from a range of allied disciplines, including comparative philology, mythology, and anatomy. This investigation tracks comparatist inquiry through a range of nineteenth-century theories of society and nature, and--by addressing the novel’s concern with historiography, secularism, melodrama, alterity, and multiple modernities--locates Dickens’s sensational account of Revolutionary France as a key text in the emergence of comparative history as an independent Victorian discipline.

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Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and the Monstrous Efts

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Work on the Victorian dinosaur: Histories and prehistories of 19th‐century palaeontology

Work on the Victorian dinosaur: Histories and prehistories of 19th‐century palaeontology

Tennyson In and Out of Time

The Comparative History of A Tale of Two Cities

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