Victorian glassworlds [[electronic resource] ] : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong
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| Autore: |
Armstrong Isobel
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| Titolo: |
Victorian glassworlds [[electronic resource] ] : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (470 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 666.1094109034 |
| 820.9008 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Glass - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Glass manufacture - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency; PART I: FACETS OF GLASS CULTURE: MAKING AND BREAKING GLASS; PART II: PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS; PART III: LENS-MADE IMAGES: OPTICAL TOYS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. - ;Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian glassworlds |
| ISBN: | 1-281-51530-2 |
| 9786611515300 | |
| 0-19-152551-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453646803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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