| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) : illustrations |
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Art museum curators |
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Museum curators |
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Marylanders |
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Women |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Novelty fair; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Time's question; 1 The 'offensive body': the politics of consumption in 1848; 2 'All that is solid melts into air': representing the Chartist crowd in 1848; 3 'The Gutta Percha Staff': between respectable and risqué satire in 1848; 4 'All that is sacred is profaned': balloons, fairs, ballads and the Great Exhibition; 5 'The Pound and the Shilling': romance and the cash nexus at the Great Exhibition; 6 A 'Chamber of Horrors': class and consumption at mid century; Conclusion: Novelty Fair, burlesquing history. |
| Summary |
Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular culture. |
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History. |
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Arts -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Arts. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Briggs, Jo. Novelty fair 0719089646 (OCoLC)920730446 |
| ISBN |
9781784997038 (electronic book) |
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178499703X (electronic book) |
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9781526109590 |
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152610959X |
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0719089646 |
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9780719089640 |
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