Main entry:

Black, Barbara J., 1962-

Title & Author:

On exhibit : Victorians and their museums / Barbara J. Black.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Description:

viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
The museum crowd : fragments shored against their ruin -- Fugitive articulation of an all-obliterated tongue : Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the politics of collecting -- Acquired taste : the museum enterprise comes home -- A gallery of readings : rendezvous in the museum -- "The works on the wall must take their chance" : a poetics of acquisition -- An empire's great expectations : the museum in decline -- Coda : in Freud's study.

Summary:

"Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key nineteenth-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black illuminates British culture of the period by examining the cultural power that this collecting and exhibiting possessed. Through its museums, she argues, Victorian London constructed itself as a world city." "While On Exhibit provides analysis of Victorian society, it also reminds us how modern the Victorians were - how, in crucial ways, our culture derives from the Victorian era. Forging connections between museums, urbanism, and modernity, Black provokes us to examine cultural imperialism and the costs and advantages of cultural consensus."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0813918979 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813918976 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Heimatmuseum Amöneburg
Museums England London History 19th century.
Popular culture Great Britain History 19th century.
Musées Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature et société Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Culture populaire Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Civilization.
Intellectual life.
Museums.
Popular culture.
Englisch
Literatur
Museum
Musea.
Literature and society England London 19th century.
Musées Grande-Bretagne Londres (GB) 19e siècle.
Culture populaire Grande-Bretagne Londres (GB) 19e siècle.
London (England) Intellectual life 19th century.
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.
London (England) Civilization.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Civilisation 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1837-1901 (Vic.)
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1837-1901 (Victoria)
England London.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
London (England) Civilization 19th century.
Londres (GB) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Museums -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
London (England) -- Civilization -- 19th century
Literature and society -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century
Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Victorian literature and culture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212612
Call No.: AM43.L6 B5 2000
Status: Available