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This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851.

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Introduction: Louise Purbrick
1. The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye – Steve Edwards
2. An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain – Rafael Cardoso Denis
3. Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea – Brian Maidment
4. An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class – Peter Gurney
5. Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace – Lara Kriegel
6. Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures – Richard Pearson
Notes on contributors
Select bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/17/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719055928, 978-0719055928
      ISBN10: 071905592X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Louise Purbrick
      1. The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye – Steve Edwards
      2. An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain – Rafael Cardoso Denis
      3. Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea – Brian Maidment
      4. An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class – Peter Gurney
      5. Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace – Lara Kriegel
      6. Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures – Richard Pearson
      Notes on contributors
      Select bibliography
      Index

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