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Author Kember, Joe

Title Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840-1910
Published London : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century ; v. 16
Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; 1. Spectacle om Leicester Square; 2. Fetes, Bazaars and Conversaziones; 3. The Afterlife of Freak Shows; 4. Beyond Scientific Spectacle; 5. Daniel William Cahill and the Rhetorical Geography of Science and Religion; 6. Narrativizing 'The World's Show'; 7. The Talking Fish; 8. Representation, Race and the Zoological Real in the Great Gorilla Controversy of 1861; 9. On Wonder; 10. Meeting the Zulus; 11. Unwrapping the Past; 12. 'The Wandering Friend'; Notes; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Exhibitions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions -- History -- 19th century
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Exhibitions
Science
Science -- Social aspects
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Plunkett, John
Sullivan, Jill A
ISBN 9781848933071
184893307X
9781848933064
1848933061