Drawing strongly on contemporary sources and illustrated with over 50 pictures this book provides an authoritative account of the history of the showmen and the

"Number nine in a series of monographs on pre-cinema and early film."

Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge

"Papers taken from the ... second Visual Delights conference held at the University of Sheffield in 2002"--P. [4] of cover.

This comprehensive list of allusions found in James Joyce's modern classic, Ulysses, is in itself a classic and is a feat of literary scholarship of unprecedent