Introduction
1. From Cabinets to Museums, I: 1600–1750
2. From Cabinets to Museums, II: 1750–1800
3. Monster-Mongers and Other Retailers of Strange Sights
4. Waxwork and Clockwork
5. Exhibitions of Mechanical Ingenuity
6. Water, Fire, Air, and a Celestial Bed
7. The Sights and Resorts of Eighteenth-Century London
8. Art on Display
9. The Eidophusikon
10. The Panorama in Leicester Square
11. A Panorama in a Pleasure Dome
12. The Diorama
13. Panoramas: Topics of the Times
14. The Theatrical Art of the Panorama
15. Panoramas in Motion
16. Scenes Optical, Mechanical, and Spectral
17. Entr’acte: Exhibitions and London Life
18. William Bullock and the Egyptian Hall
19. Freaks in the Age of Improvement
20. The Noble Savage Reconsidered
21. The Ancient and the Exotic
22. Life and Death in the Animal Kingdom
23. Zoos and Pleasure Gardens
24. The Waxen and the Fleshly
25. More Mechanical Ingenuity
26. The Two Faces of Science
27. Technology for the Million
28. Artifacts and Models
29. Fine Art for the People
30. Entr’acte: Inside the Exhibition Business
31. National Monuments
32. The Crystal Palace Year: 1851
33. The Fifties, I: New Patterns of Life and the Decline of the Panorama
34. The Fifties, II: The Old Order Changeth
Epilogue
Short Forms of Citation
Notes
Index
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