The Great Exhibition of 1851
Subtitle: new interdisciplinary essays
By: Louise Purbrick, editor.
Contributors: Purbrick, Louise.
Series: Texts in culture
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of figures; title: Series introduction; title: Acknowledgements; title: Chronology; title: LOUISE PURBRICK; title: Introduction; title: STEVE EDWARDS; title: 1 The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye; title: RAFAEL CARDOSO DENIS; title: 2 An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain; title: BRIAN MAIDMENT; title: 3 Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea; title: PETER GURNEY; title: 4 An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class; title: LARA KRIEGEL; title: 5 Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace; title: RICHARD PEARSON; title: 6 Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures; title: Notes on contributors; title: Select bibliography; title: Index.