Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth Century Britain. Empathy, education, entertainment

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Deals notably with travelling menageries but also with zoos, 1800-80, and 'how contemporaries thought about rare animals, where they encountered them and what symbolic, pedagogic and scientific value they attached to them', using this as a vehicle through which to examine issues such as race, class, gender and colonialism. Chapters include: 'The lions of London'; 'Zoo, community and civic pride'; 'Elephants in the high street'; 'Animals wholesale and retail'; 'Seeing the elephant'; 'Cruelty and compassion'; 'Dangerous frolicking'; 'In the lions' den'