Novelty fair —— British visual culture between Chartism and the Great Exhibition

----- 新奇博览会：宪章运动和大展览间的英国视觉文化

ISBN: 9780719089640 出版年：2016 页码：191 Jo Briggs Manchester University Press

Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the great exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical shilling books and government-backed design reform, blackface performers and middle-class paterfamilias. A range of new and neglected sources, drawn mainly from popular culture are used to inform the discussion. The pivotal years between chartism and the great exhibition emerge as far more contested than has previously been recognised and bourgeois forms and strategies are revealed as being under stress in a period that has been seen as a triumphant one for that class. Novelty fair will be of special interest to historians of chartism, cultural historians interested in the great exhibition and design reform and those in the field of victorian studies, cultural studies and visual culture more generally.