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Victorian Popular Culture

 

Victorian Popular Culture is a collection of primary source material on popular entertainment in late eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and America, with supporting essays. It includes manuscripts, printed books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, posters, handbills, children's literature, and celebrity memoirs.

There are three parts to the collection

• Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic 
• Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks 
• Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment  (coming soon in 2010)

 

Citing from Victorian Popular Culture using MLA style
Bertram, Charles, Isn't it Wonderful: A History of Magic and Mystery. London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1896. Victorian Popular Culture. Adam Matthew Digital. [library where resource was accessed]. 21 February 2008 <http://www.victorianpopularculture.amdigital.co.uk.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/Contents/document-details.aspx?documentid=14499&vpath=contentsindex>

Copyright
Images from this collection may be downloaded, printed and photocopied for educational purposes including course packs. Links may be created for essays submitted electronically. Photocopies and printouts of images may be used to accompany printed essay material. For commercial use contact the publisher Adam Matthew Digital.

 

 

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