Buzard, James

et al, eds. Cl. Charlottesville, 2007

Book ID: 73098

Gathers the best papers by leading scholars from a series of conferences in New York, Santa Cruz, and London commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Crystal Palace, the architectural breakthrough at the Great Exhibition of 1851 that symbolized the quintessence of British industrial and technological progress. Each essay makes an important new contribution to thinking about the place occupied both materially and discursively by the Crystal Palace and other 19th- and 20th-century exhibitions in the struggle to come to meaningful terms with the modern world.

327 pp., 31 B&W illus.