Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space 7
4. I The Department Store
5. 1. “One Need Be Neither a Shopper Nor a Purchaser to Enjoy:” Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870–1905 19
6. 2. Enclosed Exhibitions : Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames 55
7. II Spectacles
8. 3. Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment 81
9. 4. Parading the Temporary: Cosmoramas, Panoramas , and Spectacles in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris 107
10. 5. Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the “Northern Gothic Art Tour” – Ephemera and Alterity 131
11. III At the Intersection of Literature and the Built Environment
12. 6. The Elusiveness of History and the Ephemerality of Display in Nineteenth- Century France and Belgium: At the Intersection of the Built Environment and the Spatial Image in Literature 161
13. 7. The “Phantasmatic” Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson’s “The Chinese Empire” and Mark Twain’s Roughing It 191
14. IV The Museum and Alternative Exhibition Spaces
15. 8. “Show Meets Science:” How Hagenbeck’s “Human Zoos” Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation 221
16. 9. The Last Wunderkammer : Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 253
17. 10. The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I 273
18. Index 295