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This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.
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'Young's thought-provoking study succeeds in capturing the frictions, discontinuities and negotiations between one of the exhibition's abstract 'grand narratives' and the plurality of competing narratives which the heterogeneous material culture of the display inspired.' - ZAA
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PAUL YOUNG is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization and the Great Exhibition
Book Subtitle: The Victorian New World Order
Authors: Paul Young
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594319
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-52075-2Published: 29 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59431-9Published: 28 January 2009
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 249
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland