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Edwards, Stephen
(2001).
URL: https://archive.org/details/greatexhibitiono0000un...
Abstract
This essay focuses on a Punch cartoon and article on the 1851 exhibition by a leading scientific intellectual of the time. It centres on the exhibition as a site for the emergence of middle-class expertise. In particular, it is concerned with the production of a disembodied viewer as objective witness. While it does draw on archival work, it is an inventive piece of reading and methodological speculation.