Inventing the cave man : from Darwin to the Flintstones /

Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ances...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Horrall, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Temas:
1800-1899
History in popular culture > Great Britain.
Prehistoric peoples in literature.
Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures.
Prehistoric peoples on television.
Cave dwellers in art.
Histoire dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne.
Préhistoire dans la littérature.
Cave dwellers in art
History in popular culture
Intellectual life
Prehistoric peoples in literature
Prehistoric peoples in motion pictures
Prehistoric peoples on television
Höhlenmensch
Rezeption
Massenkultur
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Mass culture: the Victorian world picture
  • Darwin, Du Chaillu and Mr Gorilla: the lions of the season
  • The parents of Adam and Eve: missing links
  • Antediluvian pictorial fun: E.T. Reed and the prehistoric peeps
  • He of the auburn locks: George Robey, the Edwardian cave man
  • Cave dwellers of Flanders: the First World War
  • Modern times: the Victorian cave man's long afterlife
  • Conclusion

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