Guidebooks to the 1851 Exhibition Guide-book to the Industrial exhibition, with facts, figures and observations on the manufactures and produce exhibited (Partridge & Oakey, 1851), also on Google books. A general guidebook with particular emphasis on the manfacturing processes and machiery on show, and arranged according to these rather than national stands. Hunt’s hand-book to the official […]
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Crystal Palace guidebooks and descriptions
Posted by Sarah Young on May 25, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/25/crystal-palace-guidebooks-and-descriptions/
Great Exhibition Catalogues
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything substantial on the Crystal Palace, so I’ve decided to focus a few posts on gathering together resources that are available on line – mainly 19th century stuff from Google books and archive.org for the time being. With this in mind, it makes sense to begin at the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 18, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/18/great-exhibition-catalogues/
The Great Exhibition on Google
A lovely Google Doodle today to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, on 1st May 1851: The original has a nifty magnification feature, and some nice animations – the fountain works, for example. I assume it will appear in the doodles gallery at some point. It seems […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 1, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/05/01/the-great-exhibition-on-google/
The Crocodile and the Crystal Palace: a whimsy
Some of the best ideas are destined never to make it into print. They’re usually the ‘wouldn’t it be great if…’ ideas, that you know probably aren’t true, and even if they are, there’s no way you’re ever going to prove them. At the same time you don’t want to let them go altogether. And […]
Posted by Sarah Young on June 5, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/06/05/the-crocodile-and-the-crystal-palace-a-whimsy/
Crystal Palace Literature
Now I’ve recovered from the unbearable strain of watching Crystal Palace’s game against Sheffield Wednesday and can breathe a sigh of relief as we’ve avoided relegation, I can get back to the Crystal Palace itself and continue my musings on some of its representations in literature. The Crystal Palace first appeared in fiction in the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 2, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/05/02/crystal-palace-literature/
The Crystal Palace in Russian Literature (2)
I think the general assumption is that Chernyshevsky’s use of the Crystal Palace as the basis for his utopian vision riled Dostoevsky so much that he then included in the polemic against rational egoism in Notes from Underground (Russian text here). But by the time What is to be Done? was published, Dostoevsky had already visited […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 22, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/04/22/the-crystal-palace-in-russian-literature-2/
The Crystal Palace in Russian Literature (1)
At my next conference, the 14th International Dostoevsky Symposium, in Napoli this June (volcanic ash cloud permitting), I’ll be presenting a paper on Dostoevsky and the Crystal Palace. It’s a subject that has obviously been examined before, usually in relation to the narrator’s comments in Notes from Underground, but I’ve decided to tackle it partly because my […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 20, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/04/20/crystal-palace-russian-literature-1/