Jo Briggs

Novelty fair (eBook, ePUB)

British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great Exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical shilling books and government-backed design reform, blackface performers and middle-class paterfamilias. A range of new and neglected sources, drawn mainly from popular culture are used to inform the discussion. The pivotal years between Chartism and the Great Exhibition emerge as far more contested than has previously been recognised and bourgeois forms and strategies are revealed as being under stress in a period that has been seen as a triumphant one for that class. Novelty fair will be of special interest to historians of Chartism, cultural historians interested in the Great Exhibition and design reform and those in the field of Victorian studies, cultural studies and visual culture more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996413
• Artikelnr.: 48796817

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