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The shows of London

Richard Daniel Altick 1978 © Elizabeth Altick
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  • 9780674807310 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. From cabinets to Museums, I:1600-1750 (page 5)
  • 2. From Cabinets to Museums, II: 1750-1800 (page 22)
  • 3. Monster-Mongers and Other Retailers of Strange Sights (page 34)
  • 4. Waxwork and Clockwork (page 50)
  • 5. Exhibitions of Mechanical Ingenuity (page 64)
  • 6. Water, Fire, Air, and a Celestial Bed (page 77)
  • 7. The Sights and Resorts of Eighteenth-Century London (page 87)
  • 8. Art on Display (page 99)
  • 9. The Eidophusikon (page 117)
  • 10. The Panorama in Leicester Square (page 128)
  • 11. A Panorama in a Pleasure Dome (page 141)
  • 12 The Diorama (page 163)
  • 13. Panoramas: Topics of the Times (page 173)
  • 14. The Theatrical Art of the Panorama (page 184)
  • 15. Panoramas in Motion (page 198)
  • 16. Scenes Optical, Mechanical, and Spectral (page 211)
  • 17. Entr'acte: Exhibitions and London Life (page 221)
  • 18. William Bullock and the Egyptian Hall (page 235)
  • 19. Freaks in the Age of Improvement (page 253)
  • 20. The Noble Savage Reconsidered (page 268)
  • 21. The Ancient and the Exotic (page 288)
  • 22. Life and Death in the Animal Kingdom (page 302)
  • 23. Zoos and Pleasure Gardens (page 317)
  • 24 The Waxen and the Fleshly (page 332)
  • 25. More Mechanical Ingenuity (page 350)
  • 26. The Two Faces of Science (page 363)
  • 27. Technology for the Million (page 375)
  • 28. Artifacts and Models (page 390)
  • 29. Fine Art for the People (page 404)
  • 30. Entr'acte: Inside the Exhibition Business (page 420)
  • 31. National Monuments (page 434)
  • 32. The Crystal Palace Year: 1851 (page 455)
  • 33. The Fifties, I: New Paterns of Life and the Decline of the Panorama (page 470)
  • 34. The Fifties, II: The Old Order Changeth (page 483)
  • Epilogue (page 504)
  • Short Forms of Citation (page 512)
  • Notes (page 513)
  • Index (page 541)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ES 12.4 (Summer 1979): 559-562 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-2586%28197922%2912%3A4%3C559%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
AHR 84. 2 (Apr. 1979): 455-456 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197904%2984%3A2%3C455%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
ENHR 96.380 (Jul. 1981): 623-624 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28198107%2996%3A380%3C623%3ATSOLAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
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