LEADER 03498nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910809477103321 005 20240418145631.0 010 0 $a0191525510 010 0 $a9780191525513 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7038057 035 $a(CKB)24235124100041 035 $a(NjHacI)9924235124100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC416027 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL416027 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237107 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL151530 035 $a(OCoLC)476246620 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235124100041 100 $a20080612d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictorian glassworlds $eglass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 /$fIsobel Armstrong 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) $cillustrations, maps 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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-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. 330 $aIsobel 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. 606 $aGlass$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGlass manufacture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMaterial culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century 615 0$aGlass$xHistory 615 0$aGlass manufacture$xHistory 615 0$aMaterial culture$xHistory 676 $a666.1 676 $a666.1094109034 700 $aArmstrong$b Isobel$0164623 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809477103321 996 $aVictorian glassworlds$94112324 997 $aUNINA