Title & Author:

Victorian prism : refractions of the Crystal Palace / edited by James Buzard, Joseph W. Childers, and Eileen Gillooly.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

Description:

xii, 327 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.
pt. 1. Exhibitionary aims and anxieties -- Rhetorical remedies for taxonomic troubles : reading the great exhibition / Eileen Gillooly -- Conflicting cartographies : globalism, nationalism, and the Crystal Palace floor plan / James Buzard -- pt. 2. Exhibition viewing -- Languages of glass : the dreaming collection / Isobel Armstrong -- This sublime museum : looking at art at the great exhibition / Rachel Teukolsky -- National portraits / Richard L. Stein -- pt. 3. Exhibiting publics -- Mayhew, the prince, and the poor : the great exhibition of power and dispossession / Karen Chase and Michael Levenson -- "A palace for the people"? : the Crystal Palace and consumer culture in Victorian England / Peter Gurney -- Distracting impressions and rational recreation at the great exhibition / Andrea Hihbard -- pt. 4. Others on exhibit -- Exhibiting America : the Native American and the crystal palace / Kate Flint -- Jerusalem, my happy home : the Palestine exhibition and the limits of the Orientalist imagination / Eitan Bar-Yosef -- Peering back : colonials and exhibitions / Joseph W. Childers -- A Gothic glass case in the tropical forest : the First Venezuelan National Exhibition of 1883 / Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan -- pt. 5. Afterlives -- The great exhibition and modernization / John R. Davis -- "A dark exhibition" : the Crystal Palace, bleak house, and intellectual property / Clare Pettitt.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780813926032 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0813926033 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition, 1851, London, England)
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England)
Crystal Palace (Londres, Angleterre)
Crystal Palace London, England.
Crystal Palace (London, England)
London Weltausstellung (1851)
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Great Exhibition.
Exhibitions Great Britain History 19th century.
Exhibitions.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Ausstellung
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.
Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
London Kristallpalast.
1851-1851

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Buzard, James.
Childers, Joseph W.
Gillooly, Eileen.
Victorian literature and culture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252552
Call No.: BIB 182251
Status: Available