Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture

Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture

The Monsterization of Molluscs

Latva, Otto

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2024

254

Mole

9781032318646

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List of figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Humans, Cephalopods, and History

Part I: The Era of New Ideas and Far-Reaching Seafaring, 1763-1802

1. The Late Eighteenth-Century Encounters with Giant-Sized Squid

2. Narratives and Enlightenment Theories

Part II: The Years of Uncertainty and Discovery, 1802-61

3. The Early Nineteenth-Century Encounters with Giant-sized Squid

4. The Enormous Squid, Zoology, and the Public Discussion

Part III: The Period of Cephalopod Monsters, 1861-99

5. The Late Nineteenth-Century Encounters with Giant-sized Squid

6. The Enormous Squid in Scientific and Public Discussion in the 1860s

7. The Emergence of the Giant Squid and how it Became a Monster

Conclusion

Index
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