Briggs, Jo, <br/><br/>
Novelty fair :  British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition / 
Jo Briggs. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784997038 178499703X 9781526109590 152610959X 9781784996413 1784996416 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt1b3gv78  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB639885  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>017773993  Uk 018371095  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Arts--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>HISTORY--Social History.<br/>Arts.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Popular culture.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.<br/>Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA533  / .B75 2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>941/.081