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SERIOUS
PLEASURES
April 1-4, 2004
University of Iowa
From
zoos to international exhibitions to the display of human beings;
from pantomime pageants to colonial durbars; from circulating
libraries to penny novels; from clubs devoted to the new art of
photography to the first cinema showings, Serious
Pleasures drew audiences across the globe in the nineteenth
century, often to venues where men, and women, people of varying
classes and nations, and imperialists and colonized met.
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