The London Zoo and the Victorians 1828–1859
The Zoological Society of London was established in 1826, and its menagerie in Regents Park opened two years later. Even before the animals were available for public inspection it attracted anticipatory press attention, which only increased in subsequent years and decades. The reasons for this media...
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| description | The Zoological Society of London was established in 1826, and its menagerie in Regents Park opened two years later. Even before the animals were available for public inspection it attracted anticipatory press attention, which only increased in subsequent years and decades. The reasons for this media focus are not hard to find. The zoo occupied a conspicuous location in the metropolis, and its collection appealingly combined the traditional and the novel. The display of exotic animals had a long history in Britain as elsewhere, and early visitors to Regent's Park could also have admired many similar creatures individually exhibited at fairs or in the yards of taverns or grouped in traveling or stationary menageries. London's oldest such collection, the royal menagerie at the Tower of London, dated from the thirteenth century. All these venues implicitly defined captive animals as spectacle or as entertainment. As the name... |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1163222022-10-02T03:51:35Z The London Zoo and the Victorians 1828–1859 Ritvo, Harriet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section Ritvo, Harriet Ritvo, Harriet The Zoological Society of London was established in 1826, and its menagerie in Regents Park opened two years later. Even before the animals were available for public inspection it attracted anticipatory press attention, which only increased in subsequent years and decades. The reasons for this media focus are not hard to find. The zoo occupied a conspicuous location in the metropolis, and its collection appealingly combined the traditional and the novel. The display of exotic animals had a long history in Britain as elsewhere, and early visitors to Regent's Park could also have admired many similar creatures individually exhibited at fairs or in the yards of taverns or grouped in traveling or stationary menageries. London's oldest such collection, the royal menagerie at the Tower of London, dated from the thirteenth century. All these venues implicitly defined captive animals as spectacle or as entertainment. As the name... 2018-06-15T13:13:57Z 2018-06-15T13:13:57Z 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1355-5502 1750-0133 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116322 Ritvo, Harriet. “The London Zoo and the Victorians 1828–1859.” Journal of Victorian Culture 20, 2 (January 2015): 255–257 © 2015 Harriet Ritvo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3571 en_US https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2014.997132 Journal of Victorian Culture Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Taylor & Francis Prof. Ritvo via Ece Turnator |
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