Contents

pp 5-6

Introduction: Staging the Temporary: The Fragile Character of Space

pp 7-16

I - The Department Store

pp 17-18

1 - “One Need Be Neither a Shopper Nor a Purchaser to Enjoy:” Ephemeral Exhibitions at Tiffany & Co., 1870–1905

pp 19-54

2 - Enclosed Exhibitions : Claustrophobia, Balloons, and the Department Store in Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames

pp 55-78

II - Spectacles

pp 79-80

3 - Jardins-Spectacles: Spaces and Traces of Embodiment

pp 81-106

4 - Parading the Temporary: Cosmoramas, Panoramas , and Spectacles in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris

pp 107-130

5 - Portable Museums: Imaging and Staging the “Northern Gothic Art Tour” – Ephemera and Alterity

pp 131-158

III - At the Intersection of Literature and the BuiltEnvironment

pp 159-160

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

pp 161-190

7 - The “Phantasmatic” Chinatown in Helen Hunt Jackson’s “The Chinese Empire” and Mark Twain’s Roughing It

pp 191-218

IV - The Museum and Alternative Exhibition Spaces

pp 219-220

8 - “Show Meets Science:” How Hagenbeck’s “Human Zoos” Inspired Ethnographic Science and Its Museum Presentation

pp 221-252

9 - The Last Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Private Collections between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

pp 253-272

10 - The Impact of Alternative Exhibition Spaces on European Modern Art before World War I

pp 273-294

Index

pp 295-299