Rossetti's Wombat: Pre-Raphaelites and Australian Animals in Victorian London (Popular culture)
by John Simons
A cultural history exploring how a wombat and other Australian animals became part of Victorian London's Pre-Raphaelite world and popular imagination.
About This Book
This book examines the cultural intersections between Victorian Britain and Australia through the lens of animal history.
It focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite circle and their unusual relationship with exotic animals imported from the colonies.
The narrative highlights how such animals became symbols within art, literature, and popular imagination of the period.
Readers gain insight into broader themes of empire, collecting, and the exoticization of the natural world in nineteenth-century London.
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