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Popular exhibitions, science and showmanship, 1840-1910 / edited by Joe Kember, John Plunkett and Jill A. Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 16.
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; number 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exhibitions--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Exhibitions.
- Science--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Science--Great Britain--Exhibitions--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Popular Exhibitions, Science & Showmanship, 1840-1910
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.
- Contents:
- Spectacle in Leicester Square : James Wyld's great globe, 1851-61 / Bernard Lightman
- Fetes, bazaars and conversaziones : science, entertainment and local civic elites / John Plunkett and Jill A. Sullivan
- The afterlife of freak shows / Fiona Pettit
- Beyond scientific spectacle : image and word in nineteenth-century popular lecturing / Martin Hewitt
- Daniel William Cahill and the rhetorical geography of science and religion / Diarmid A. Finnegan
- Narrativizing 'the world's show' : the Great Exhibition, panoramic views and print supplements / Verity Hunt
- The talking fish : performance and delusion in the Victorian exhibition / Caroline Radcliffe
- Representation, race and the zoological real in the great gorilla controversy of 1861 / John Miller
- On wonder : situating the spectacle in spiritualism and performance magic / Martin Willis
- Meeting the Zulus : displayed peoples and the shows of London, 1853-79 / Sadiah Qureshi
- Unwrapping the past : Egyptian mummies on show / Beverley Rogers
- 'The wandering friend' : Andrew Carnegie's dinosaur invades Europe, 1902-14 / Ilja Nieuwland.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822981787
- 0822981785
- 9781317321125
- 131732112X
- 9781315655123
- 1315655128
- 9781317321132
- 1317321138
- 9781848933071
- 184893307X
- OCLC:
- 831121240
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