MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays /

The Great Exhibition of 1851 : new interdisciplinary essays / Louise Purbrick, editor. - Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2001. - x, 217 p : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk. - Texts in culture .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-209) and index.

The accumulation of knowledge or, William Whewell's eye -- An industrial vision: the promotion of technical drawing in mid-Victorian Britain -- Entrepreneurship and the artisans: John Cassell, the Great Exhibition and the periodical idea -- An appropriated space: the Great Exhibition, the Crystal Palace and the working class --Narrating the subcontinent in 1851: India at the Crystal Palace -- Thackeray and Punch at the Great Exhibition: authority and ambivalence in verbal and visual caricatures.

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