Goldfish in the parlour the Victorian craze for marine life / John Simons.
| Author/creator | Simons, John, 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2023. |
| Description | xiii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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 now could with the invention of the aquarium and everything that went with it. Goldfish in the Parlour looks at the boom in the building of public aquariums, as well as the craze for home aquariums and visiting the seaside, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Furthermore, this book considers how people see and meet animals and, importantly, in what institutions and in what contexts these encounters happen. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021388334 |
| ISBN | 9781743328729 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ePub) |
| ISBN | (PDF) |