Pictures from an Exhibition: the great exhibition in Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851
Pictures from an Exhibition: the great exhibition in Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851

Author(s): Maria Dimitrova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Victorian literature; Henry Mayhew; the Great Exhibition; production and consumption
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses Henry Mayhew’s novel 1851: Or, the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to ‘Enjoy Themselves,’ and to See the Great Exhibition. The novel, itself written in 1851, offers a valuable commentary on one of the most significant events in Victorian economic and social history. In particular, the paper explores the novel’s ambivalent attitudes to production and consumption and to the producing and the consuming classes, as well as the way these attitudes are created or sustained at the level of narrative structure.

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