Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain : Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps (Paperback)

Introduction; Chapter 1 Preamble Theorizing about Skin; Chapter 1a Industry, Empire, Portraiture, and Skin at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester; Chapter 2 A Skin Disorder; Chapter 3 Stuff and Nonsense: Skin and Victorian Animal Portraiture; Chapter 4 Touch: Reaching through the Bars; Chapter 5 Wild Skins and Mapping the Victorian Landscape;