Author: Samuel Prout NewcombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The royal road to reading through the Great exhibition, by the editor of Pleasant pages
Author: Samuel Prout NewcombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Little Henry's records of his life-time, by the author of 'Pleasant pages'. Old 1851
Author: Little Henry's records of his life-timePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
British Children's Literature and Material Culture
Author: Jane Suzanne CarrollPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350201804
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The 'golden age' of children's literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production and trade of commodities. The first book-length study to situate children's literature within the consumer culture of this period, British Children's Literature and Material Culture explores the intersection of children's books, consumerism and the representation of commodities within British children's literature. In tracing the role of objects in key texts from the turn of the century, Jane Suzanne Carroll uncovers the connections between these fictional objects and the real objects that child consumers bought, used, cherished, broke, and threw away. Beginning with the Great Exhibition of 1851, this book takes stock of the changing attitudes towards consumer culture – a movement from celebration to suspicion – to demonstrate that children's literature was a key consumer product, one that influenced young people's views of and relationships with other kinds of commodities. Drawing on a wide spectrum of well-known and less familiar texts from Britain, this book examines works from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and E. Nesbit's Five Children & It to Christina Rossetti's Speaking Likenesses and Mary Louisa Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock. Placing children's fiction alongside historical documents, shop catalogues, lost property records, and advertisements, Carroll provides fresh critical insight into children's relationships with material culture and reveals that even the most fantastic texts had roots in the ordinary, everyday things.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Journal of the Society of Arts, and of the Institutions in Union, and Official Record of Annual International Exhibitions
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Catalogue of a Collection of Works on Or Having Reference to the Exhibition of 1851
Author: Charles Wentworth DilkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108036619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Privately published in 1855, this catalogue lists several hundred contemporary publications that testify to the impact of the Great Exhibition.
The Great Exhibition
Author: John R. DavisPublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the world's first international exposition of manufactured goods, inventions, works of art and artefacts from many cultures. A showcase of British manufacturing supremacy, an educational extravaganza, a lesson to foreigners and a deep source of public fascination, the Exhibition was closely connected with Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, who put much effort into having it sited in Hyde Park against stiff opposition. Protesters feared the disappearance of the park under tons of bricks and mortar, but when the great structure was eventually chosen and built, it silenced dissenters and became the most famous new building in the world.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: Lockelvitz to Lzheupovanie
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Author: British Library