Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon by Richard Fallon

Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the 'Terrible Lizard' Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon

Richard Fallon

217 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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"When 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to a series of poorly known British fossils conceived as bulky lizards. Subsequent American discoveries like Brontosaurus, unearthed later in the century, proved that dinosaurs were far stranger tha...

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