Suchergebnisse

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; 1. Spectacle om Leicester Square; 2. Fetes, Bazaars and Conversaziones; 3. The Afterlife of Freak Shows; 4. Beyond Scientific Spectacle; 5. Daniel William Cahill and the Rhetorical Geography of Science and Religion; 6. Narrativizing 'The World's Show'; 7. The Talking Fish; 8. Representation, Race and the Zoological Real in the Great Gorilla Controversy of 1861; 9. On Wonder; 10. Meeting the Zulus; 11. Unwrapping the Past; 12. 'The Wandering Friend'; Notes; Index.

Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology