Popular exhibitions, science and showmanship, 1840-1910
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Popular exhibitions, science and showmanship, 1840-1910
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 16）
Pickering & Chatto, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-276) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Joe Kember, John Plunkett and Jill A Sullivan Part I: Science and Spectacle 1 Spectacle in Leicester Square: James Wyld's Great Globe, 1851-61 - Bernard Lightman 2 Fetes, Bazaars and Conversaziones: Science, Entertainment and Local Civic Elites - John Plunkett and Jill A Sullivan 3 The Afterlife of Freak Shows - Fiona Pettit Part II: Word and Image 4 Beyond Scientific Spectacle: Image and Word in Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing - Martin Hewitt 5 Daniel William Cahill and the Rhetorical Geography of Science and Religion - Diarmid A Finnegan 6 Narrativizing 'The World's Show': The Great Exhibition, Panoramic Views and Print Supplements - Verity Hunt Part III: Staging Knowledge 7 The Talking Fish: Performance and Delusion in the Victorian Exhibition - Caroline Radcliffe 8 Representation, Race and the Zoological Real in the Great Gorilla Controversy of 1861 - John Miller 9 On Wonder: Situating the Spectacle in Spiritualism and Performance Magic - Martin Willis Part IV: The Politics of Display 10 Meeting the Zulus: Displayed Peoples and the Shows of London, 1853-79 - Sadiah Qureshi 11 Unwrapping the Past: Egyptian Mummies on Show - Beverley Rogers 12 'The Wandering Friend' Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur Invades Europe, 1902-14 - Ilja Nieuwland
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