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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.

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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
Index

Novelty Fair British Visual Culture Between

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 2/2/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719089640, 978-0719089640
      ISBN10: 0719089646

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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
      Index

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