The Great Exhibition of 1851. New interdisciplinary essays
Details:
- Author(s) Purbrick, Louise (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2001
- Pages 217pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Industrial exhibitions
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Six collected essays dealing with interdisciplinary cultural issues. Includes: Richard Pearson, Thackeray and 'Punch' at the Great Exhibition - authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures' [pp179-205]; Brian Maidment, 'Entrepreneurship and the artisan - John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea' [pp79-113]; Rafael C Denis, 'An industrial vision - the promotion of technical drawing in mid Victorian Britain' [pp53-78]