Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London (Popular culture)
by John Simons
Rossetti's Wombat examines the place of Australian animals within Pre-Raphaelite culture and Victorian London. Connecting art, popular culture, and the natural world, John Simons explores how encounters with unfamiliar animals contributed to the period’s cultural imagination.
About This Book
Rossetti's Wombat explores the relationship between the Pre-Raphaelites and Australian animals in Victorian London.
The book considers how these animals entered the cultural imagination through art and popular culture.
Its focus connects Victorian society, artistic interests, and changing ideas about the natural world.
John Simons presents a study of the cultural meanings attached to Australian animals during the Victorian period.
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