Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life 9781743328729

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Автор: John Simons
Название: Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life
ISBN: 9781743328729
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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ISBN-10: 1743328729
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 387
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 31.01.2023
Язык: English
Размер: 148 x 210 x 24
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: Animals & society
Подзаголовок: The victorian craze for marine life
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: For the first time, fish became our companions and a corner of many a Victorian parlour was given over to housing tiny fragments of their world enclosed in glass. The experience of seeing a fish swimming in a glass tank is one we take for granted now but in Victorian England this was a remarkable sight. People had simply not been able to see fish as they could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the Victorian-era boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen. John Simons uncovers the sweeping consequences of the Victorian obsession with marine animals by looking at naturalist Frank Bucklands Museum of Economic Fish Culture and the role of fish in the Victorian economy, the development of angling as a sport divided along class lines, the seeding of Empire with British fish and comparisons with aquarium building in Europe, USA and Australia. Goldfish in the Parlour interrogates the craze that took over Victorian England when aquariums introduced fish to parks, zoos and parlours.

Goldfish in the Parlour: The Victorian craze for marine life, John Simons