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Autore |
Armstrong Isobel |
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Titolo |
Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Soggetti |
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Glass - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Glass manufacture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency -- PART I: FACETS OF GLASS CULTURE: MAKING AND BREAKING GLASS -- 1. Factory Tourism: Morphology of the 'Visit to a Glass Factory' -- 2. Robert Lucas Chance, Modern Glass Manufacturer: Fractures in the Glass Factory -- 3. Riot and the Grammar of Window-Breaking: The Chances, Wellington, Chartism -- 4. The Glassmakers' Eloquence: A Trade Union Journal, the Royal Commission, 1868 -- Conclusion -- PART II: PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS -- 5. Reflections, Translucency, Aura, and Trace -- 6. Glassing London: Building Glass Culture, Real and Imagined -- 7. Politics of the Conservatory: Glasshouses, Republican and Populist -- 8. Mythmaking: Cinderella and her Glass Slipper at the Crystal Palace -- 9. Glass under Glass: Glassworld Fictions -- PART III: LENS-MADE IMAGES: OPTICAL TOYS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS -- 10. The Lens, Light, and the Virtual World -- 11. Dissolving and Resolving Views: From Magic Lantern to Telescope -- 12. Microscopic Space -- 13. Crystalphiles, Anamorphobics, and Stereoscopic Volume -- 14. Coda on Time: Fixing the Moving Image and Mobilizing the Fixed Image- |
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Memory, Repetition, and Working Through -- Conclusion: The End of Glass Culture-from Nineteenth-Century Modernity to Modernism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. |
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