Takashi Ito, London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828–1859
At the beginning of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), the heroine visits the London Zoological Gardens with her fiancé. But the London zoo is not only a romantic site where young middle-class people flirt. If the young maiden enjoys looking at the birds, the mad scientist of the novel, Dr...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2015
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | At the beginning of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), the heroine visits the London Zoological Gardens with her fiancé. But the London zoo is not only a romantic site where young middle-class people flirt. If the young maiden enjoys looking at the birds, the mad scientist of the novel, Dr Benjulia, also roams the Zoological Gardens in search of animals to experiment on. Collins’s description of the London Zoological Gardens as both symbol of urban leisure and scientific knowledge is... |
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