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- Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Scientific Terminology
- Introduction Dinosaurs in Transition
- Chapter 1 Reclaiming Authority: Henry Neville Hutchinson, Popular Science, and the Construction of the Dinosaur
- Chapter 2 Reinventing Wonderland: Jabberwocks, Grotesque Monsters, and Dinosaurian Maladaptation
- Chapter 3 Rearticulating the Nation: Transatlantic Fiction and the Dinosaurs of Empire
- Chapter 4 Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology
- Conclusion Dinosaurs Rewritten
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Conclusion - Dinosaurs Rewritten
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2021
- Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Scientific Terminology
- Introduction Dinosaurs in Transition
- Chapter 1 Reclaiming Authority: Henry Neville Hutchinson, Popular Science, and the Construction of the Dinosaur
- Chapter 2 Reinventing Wonderland: Jabberwocks, Grotesque Monsters, and Dinosaurian Maladaptation
- Chapter 3 Rearticulating the Nation: Transatlantic Fiction and the Dinosaurs of Empire
- Chapter 4 Rediscovering Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Modern Romance of Palaeontology
- Conclusion Dinosaurs Rewritten
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Summary
This summarises Fallon’s contributions to the study of the cultural history of dinosaurs, literature and science, the popularisation of science, and transatlantic literary culture. It notes areas of potential future value for scholars interested in the importance and meaning of the dinosaur both in transatlantic culture and globally, including overlooked historical figures, before considering dinosaurs today and how they continue to be reimagined in both specialist palaeontology and popular culture. Fallon (1) summarises a drastic 2017 revision of the dinosaur family tree in Nature in which Victorian terms are simultaneously overridden and revived; (2) notes that Too Big to Walk, a 2018 book by independent researcher Brian Ford, presents a modern attempt to use dinosaurs to contradict the authority of elite science; (3) highlights the popularity of the Jurassic World film franchise, which in its first two films ignores the largely Chinese research that has drastically changed scientists’ conceptions of dinosaurs since the 1993 original Jurassic Park; and (4) looks at the Smithsonian Museum’s Hall of Fossils, which recruits dinosaurs into a narrative about climate change.
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- Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian LiteratureHow the ‘Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon, pp. 174 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021