The Crystal Palace Experience
E.S. Turner: The Great Exhibition of 1851, 25 November 1999
The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display
by Jeffrey Auerbach.
Yale, 280 pp., £25, October 1999,0 300 08007 7 Show More
by Jeffrey Auerbach.
Yale, 280 pp., £25, October 1999,
“... the nation was brainwashed into seeing the Crystal Palace as a ‘Temple of Peace’. John Tallis, in his guidebook, observed that ‘peace was on every lip’, and not, as one would expect, the Victorian equivalent of ‘Wow!’ Jeffrey Auerbach is much occupied with charting such changes in aspiration and emphasis. His book is less concerned ... ”