Selected Bibliography

Primary Sources

Aunt Louisa’s the Globe Alphabet. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1880.

Bennett, Charles H. The Faithless Parrot. London: Routledge and Sons, 1863.

Berry, Erick. Humbo the Hippo and Little-boy-Bumbo. 1st ed. New York ; London: Harper & Brothers Pub, 1932.

Birds of the Air ABC. Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1895.

Browne, Gordon. Dr Jollyboy’s ABC. London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1898.

Cole, Henry. An Alphabet of Quadrupeds: Partly Selected from the Works of Old Masters, and Partly Drawn from Nature. London: Joseph Cundall, 1844.

Crane, Walter. An Alphabet of Old Friends. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874.

Farrow, G. E. The Jungle Baby. London and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1890.

Father Tuck’s Noah’s Ark ABC. Father Tuck’s “Pictureland” Series. London and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., n.d.

Gilborn, Craig A. Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950. Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd), 2000.

Gould, S. Baring. Amazing Adventures. London: Skeffington & Son, 1904.

Griset, Ernest. The Alphabet of Animals. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1880.

Happy Families ABC. Father Tuck’s “Happy Hour” Series. London and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., n.d.

In the Fields, ABC. Father Tuck’s Little Lessons Series. London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., 1890.

Jasanoff, Maya. Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850. 1St ed. Knopf, 2005.

Moore-Park, Carton. An Alphabet of Animals. London: Frederick Warne, 1899.

Morris, M. Funny Zoological ABC. Dean’s Diploma Series. London: Dean and Son, 1873.

Salisbury, Martin, and Morag Styles. Children’s Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling. Laurence King Publishers, 2012.

The ABC of Animals and Birds. Warwick House Toy Books. London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1880.

The Alphabet of Animals. London and New York: Routledge Warne & Routledge, 1880.

The Child’s Famous Picture Book. London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1878.

The Children’s Own ABC. London ; Edinburgh ; New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1909.

The Large Picture Primer. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1886.

The Noah’s Ark Alphabet. London, Glasgow, and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1874.

Valentine, Laura. Aunt Louisa’s Nursery Book: Comprising Aunt Louisa’s Alphabet, My Dog Tray, Miss Rich and Little Hungry, and The Book of Animals. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1885.

———. For Very Little Folk: A Jumble Book with Hundreds of Pictures and Stories Arranged for Their Amusement. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1899.

Wood, Rev. Theodore. The Zoo. London and New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; E. & J.B. Young & Co, 1895.

Secondary Materials

Children and education

Auerbach, Sascha. “‘Some Punishment Should Be Devised’: Parents, Children,and the State in Victorian London.” Historian 71, no. 4 (Winter 2009): 757–779.

Bratton, J. S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. London: Croom Helm, 1981.

Bristow, Joseph. Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man’s World. Unwin Hyman, 1991.

Carpenter, Kevin. Penny Dreadfuls and Comics: English Periodicals for Children from Victorian Times to the Present Day. Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983.

Castle, Kathryn. Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism Through Children’s Books and Magazines. Manchester Univ Pr, 1996.

Cunningham, Hugh. The Children of the Poor: Representations of Childhood Since the Seventeenth Century. Blackwell, 1991.

Darton, Frederick Joseph Harvey. Children’s Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life. Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Hendrick, Harry. Children, Childhood, and English Society, 1880-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hunt, Peter, and Sheila G. Bannister Ray. International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Taylor & Francis, 1996.

Hunt, Peter, and Karen Sands. “The View from the Center: British Empire and Post-Empire Children’s Literature.” In Voices of the Other: Children’s Literature and the Postcolonial Context, edited by Roderick McGillis. Routledge, 1999.

Kidd, K. B. Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism. Wayne State University Press, 2004.

Kutzer, M. Daphne. Empire’s Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children’s Books. Psychology Press, 2000.

MacKenzie, John M. “Hunting and the Natural World in Juvenile Literature.” In Imperialism and Juvenile Literature, edited by Jeffrey Richards, 144–173. Manchester Univ Pr, 1989.

Nodelman, Perry. Words About Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books. University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Richards, Jeffrey, ed. Imperialism and Juvenile Literature. Manchester Univ Pr, 1989.

Singh, Rashna B. Goodly Is Our Heritage: Children’s Literature, Empire, and the Certitude of Character, 2004.

Thwaite, Mary Florence. From Primer to Pleasure in Reading: An Introduction to the History of Children’s Books in England from the Invention of Printing to 1914. 2nd ed. Library Association Publishing (UK), 1972.

Veeder, Mary Harris. “Children’s Books on Rain Forests: Beyond the Macaw Mystique.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 19, no. 4 (1994): 165–169.

Whalley, Joyce Irene. Cobwebs to Catch Flies: Illustrated Books for the Nursery and Schoolroom, 1700-1900. University of California Press, 1975.

The tropics and environment

Arnold, David. “Inventing Tropicality.” In The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion, 141–168. 1st ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 1996.

Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860. University of California Press, 1989.

Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Drayton, Richard. Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World. Yale University Press, 2000.

Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2005.

Grove, Richard H. Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Hoage, Robert J., and William A. Deiss, eds. New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Jones, Robert W. “‘The Sight of Creatures Strange to Our Clime’: London Zoo and the Consumption of the Exotic.” Journal of Victorian Culture 2, no. 1 (1997): 1–26.

Mitchell, W. J. T., ed. Landscape and Power. 2nd ed. University Of Chicago Press, 1994.

Mitman, Gregg. “When Nature Is the Zoo: Vision and Power in the Art and Science of Natural History.” Osiris 11. 2nd Series (January 1, 1996): 117–143.

Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harvard University Press, 1989.

Rothfels, Nigel. Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Sramek, Joseph. “‘Face Him Like a Briton’: Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875.” Victorian Studies 48, no. 4 (July 1, 2006): 659–680.

Stepan, Nancy. Picturing Tropical Nature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Empire and ideology

Cohn, Bernard S. “The Past in the Present: India as Museum of Mankind.” History & Anthropology 11, no. 1 (1998): 1.

Dawson, Graham. Soldier Heroes : British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of Masculinities. London ;;New York: Routledge, 1994.

Hall, Catherine, and Sonya O. Rose, eds. At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Hoffenberg, Peter H. An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2001.

Mackenzie, John. Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960. Manchester University Press, 1988.

Metcalf, Thomas R. Ideologies of the Raj The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 3, Part 4. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Porter, Bernard. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.

Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992.

Procida, Mary A. “Good Sports and Right Sorts: Guns, Gender, and Imperialism in British India.” Journal of British Studies 40, no. 4 (October 1, 2001): 454–488.

Qureshi, Sadiah. Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. University Of Chicago Press, 2011.

Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New ed. Yale University Press, 1999.

Thompson, Andrew. The Empire Strikes Back?: The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Longman, 2005.

Tobin, Beth Fowkes. Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.