Great Exhibition of 1851

Informationen zum Autor Louise Purbrick is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design, University of Brighton Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Louise Purbrick1. The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye - Steve Edwards2. An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain - Rafael Cardoso Denis3. Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea - Brian Maidment4. An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class - Peter Gurney5. Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace - Lara Kriegel6. Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures - Richard PearsonNotes on contributorsSelect bibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Louise Purbrick
• Assisted by: Louise Purbrick (Editor), Purbrick Louise (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2001
• EAN: 9780719055928
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5592-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Texts in Culture; Texts in Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Business communication & presentation, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History: specific events and topics, Business communication and presentation