Becoming modern in Toronto : the Industrial Exhibition and the shaping of a late Victorian culture / Keith Walden.

Author
Walden, Keith, 1948- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Description
430 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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    "In Becoming Modern in Toronto, Keith Walden shows how the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, from its founding, in 1879, to 1903 (when it was renamed the Canadian National Exhibition), influenced the shaping and ordering of the emerging urban culture." "The book is arranged around seven thematic elements - order, confidence, display, identity, space, entertainment, and carnival - each of which concerns the way the Exhibition contributed to a search for definition in the face of innovation. The efforts to divide existence into logical, unambiguous categories and to promote controlled conduct was, however, constantly frustrated by the novelty of the fair itself. The Exhibition presented fairgoers with new perspectives and information, while the exhibits simultaneously denied and invited their participation. Though the fair seemed to glorify professional accomplishments and legitimate elite leadership, it also implied that the fruits of industrial capitalist society were not exclusive. Walden concentrates on these ambiguities, revealing how the status quo was both confirmed and challenged at the fair." "Becoming Modern in Toronto takes into account a variety of social tensions and concerns that pervaded late Victorian culture. It will be compelling reading for historians, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists, as well as for those interested in the symbolic and social meaning of public festivity and its regulation."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-421) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Order
    • 2. Confidence
    • 3. Display
    • 4. Identity
    • 5. Space
    • 6. Entertainment
    • 7. Carnival
    • Epilogue: Modernity.
    ISBN
    • 0802008852 ((bound))
    • 9780802008855 ((bound))
    • 0802078702 ((pbk.))
    • 9780802078704 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    97170022
    OCLC
    36341596
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