Fairground Attractions A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary t...

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Main Author: Philips, Deborah (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2012
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