Jo Briggs

Novelty fair

British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089640
• ISBN-10: 0719089646
• Artikelnr.: 42800656

Autorenporträt

Jo Briggs is Assistant Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Inhaltsangabe

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