Popular Exhibitions, Science and Showmanship, 1840–1910

Abstract

Introduction - Joe Kember, John Plunkett and Jill A Sullivan Part I: Science and Spectacle 1 Spectacle in Leicester Square: James Wyld's Great Globe, 1851-61 - Bernard Lightman 2 Fetes, Bazaars and Conversaziones: Science, Entertainment and Local Civic Elites - John Plunkett and Jill A Sullivan 3 The Afterlife of Freak Shows - Fiona Pettit Part II: Word and Image 4 Beyond Scientific Spectacle: Image and Word in Nineteenth-Century Popular Lecturing - Martin Hewitt 5 Daniel William Cahill and the Rhetorical Geography of Science and Religion - Diarmid A Finnegan 6 Narrativizing 'The World's Show': The Great Exhibition, Panoramic Views and Print Supplements - Verity Hunt Part III: Staging Knowledge 7 The Talking Fish: Performance and Delusion in the Victorian Exhibition - Caroline Radcliffe 8 Representation, Race and the Zoological Real in the Great Gorilla Controversy of 1861 - John Miller 9 On Wonder: Situating the Spectacle in Spiritualism and Performance Magic - Martin Willis Part IV: The Politics of Display 10 Meeting the Zulus: Displayed Peoples and the Shows of London, 1853-79 - Sadiah Qureshi 11 Unwrapping the Past: Egyptian Mummies on Show - Beverley Rogers 12 'The Wandering Friend' Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur Invades Europe, 1902-14 - Ilja Nieuwland

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