From Monster to Ancestor: The Emergence and Animation of the Deep Past
This article looks at the treatment of extinct species by scientific popularisers in the nineteenth century, and seeks to show how their status changed over time, and why. Starting out as exotic otherworldly monsters, they retained this status amongst those authors seeking to present the findings of...
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Main Author: | Richard Somerset |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-03-01
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Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3166 |
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