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Novelty fair :

Briggs, Jo,

Novelty fair : British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition / Jo Briggs. - 1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.

Cover; Novelty fair; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 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 risqu�e 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.

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.

9781784997038 178499703X 9781526109590 152610959X 9781784996413 1784996416

22573/ctt1b3gv78 JSTOR

GBB639885 bnb

017773993 Uk 018371095 Uk


1800-1899


Popular culture--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Arts--History--Great Britain--19th century.
HISTORY--Social History.
Arts.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.


Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
Great Britain.


Electronic books.
History.

DA533 / .B75 2016eb

941/.081