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Tables of Contents for The Collector's Voice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General preface to series
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xii
Susan Pearce
Rosemary Flanders
Mark Hall
Fiona Morton
I National voices
The Great Exhibition of 1851, London, is created
3
5
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 is organised
8
6
The South Kensington Museum is established
14
5
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks is appointed to the British Museum
19
4
The National Portrait Gallery, London, comes into being in 1856
23
4
The India Museum experiences mixed fortunes
27
4
The Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is formed
31
4
Museums in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, are established, 1857--61
35
7
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes into being
42
6
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is established
48
4
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is created
52
7
II Institutional declarations
Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers describes classification and typology
59
6
The Musee d'Ethnographie, Paris, makes its first collections, 1877--78
65
5
The British Museum debates its collecting and exhibitions policy, 1885
70
5
The public are encouraged to participate in collecting natural history specimens
75
3
The press pleads for public support for expanding the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 1895
78
4
Collecting for natural history exhibitions in late nineteenth-century Melbourne enjoys popular support
82
4
Children are inspired to collect
86
3
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, gathers its first collections
89
4
Lord Leverhulme describes the benefits of public art collections, 1915
93
6
III Voices from the beyond
Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovers the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings
99
7
Amelia Edwards becomes a female scholar and populariser
106
6
Marianne Brocklehurst sails up the Nile
112
5
Austen Henry Layard excavates Nineveh and Babylon
117
9
Sir John Savile Lumley investigates the temple of Artemis at Nemi, Italy
126
3
Officers of the Royal Navy encounter the Inuit
129
11
Charles Roach Smith becomes the London archaeologist
140
5
Hugh Alderson Fawcett achieves a remarkable collection
145
6
The Harpur Crewe Family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
151
6
Charles Paget Wade creates Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire
157
4
The phrenologists collect heads
161
7
Punch reflects society back at itself
168
9
IV Literary voices
Bleak House
177
6
Charles Dickens
The Moonstone
183
6
Wilkie Collins
`The Adventure of the Illustrious Client'
189
8
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jewel of Seven Stars
197
7
Bram Stoker
She
204
10
H. Rider Haggard
The Time Machine
214
7
H. G. Wells
`The Death of Simon Fuge'
221
8
Arnold Bennett
`The Doom of the Darnaways'
229
16
G. K. Chesterton
`The Mezzotint'
245
7
M. R. James
John MacNab
252
6
John Buchan
`The Thin Man'
258
4
Dashiell Hammett
The Golden Salamander
262
7
Victor Canning
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
269
14
Angus Wilson
V Dark voices
The relics of murder most foul: the Red Barn
283
9
Museums of the macabre
292
7
A mortal obsession: the collecting of Egyptian mummies
299
8
Faking it: fakes and forgeries
307
11
Waterloo: the great victory
318
9
A soldier's life: regimental collections
327
4
Collecting the First World War
331
8
Collecting militaria
339
5
Art collections manipulated by the state
344
3
Hitler's dream of art: the culture-centre at Linz
347
3
Germany in 1945: concealed treasure
350
4
Memorial: the Holocaust Museum
354
5
Bibliography
359
6
Index
365