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Chapter 1: Introduction: Cruelties of Fashion .- Part I: Collection.- Chapter 2: Bird[s] Matter: The Case of Hummingbirds.- Chapter 3: Collecting Coleoptera: Nineteenth Century Science and Fashion.- Chapter 4: From Sexual Selection to Sex and The City: The Biogeographies of a Blue Bird-of-Paradise.- Part II: Conquest .- Chapter 5: Stylish Scarabs: Egyptian Fashion and Colonial Consumption in Amelia Edwards’ A Thousand Miles up the Nile.- Chapter 6: The Commodification of Indian Tigers’ Body Parts as Luxurious and Occult Items: Exploring the India-Britain Relationship (1858-1940).- Chapter 7: Beetles’ Wings and Serpents’ Scales: Ellen Terry’s Lady Macbeth and the Victorian Animal-Woman.- Part III: Display.- Chapter 8: Free Spirits with Wild Hearts: The Reclamation of Black Femme Humanity Through Animal Skins and Prints in Burlesque Performan.- Chapter 9: Victorian Vanities and “Frivolous Women:” Fashionable Desires and the Muff.- Chapter 10: Puss’ Hat: Taxidermized Excess in the Gilded Age and the Internet Era.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 10/02/2026
      ISBN13: 9783032061904, 978-3032061904
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      Chapter 1: Introduction: Cruelties of Fashion .- Part I: Collection.- Chapter 2: Bird[s] Matter: The Case of Hummingbirds.- Chapter 3: Collecting Coleoptera: Nineteenth Century Science and Fashion.- Chapter 4: From Sexual Selection to Sex and The City: The Biogeographies of a Blue Bird-of-Paradise.- Part II: Conquest .- Chapter 5: Stylish Scarabs: Egyptian Fashion and Colonial Consumption in Amelia Edwards’ A Thousand Miles up the Nile.- Chapter 6: The Commodification of Indian Tigers’ Body Parts as Luxurious and Occult Items: Exploring the India-Britain Relationship (1858-1940).- Chapter 7: Beetles’ Wings and Serpents’ Scales: Ellen Terry’s Lady Macbeth and the Victorian Animal-Woman.- Part III: Display.- Chapter 8: Free Spirits with Wild Hearts: The Reclamation of Black Femme Humanity Through Animal Skins and Prints in Burlesque Performan.- Chapter 9: Victorian Vanities and “Frivolous Women:” Fashionable Desires and the Muff.- Chapter 10: Puss’ Hat: Taxidermized Excess in the Gilded Age and the Internet Era.

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