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Victorian glassworlds [[electronic resource] ] : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong
| Victorian glassworlds [[electronic resource] ] : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong |
| Autore | Armstrong Isobel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-51530-2
9786611515300 0-19-152551-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453646803321 |
Armstrong Isobel
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong
| Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / / Isobel Armstrong |
| Autore | Armstrong Isobel |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina |
666.1
666.1094109034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Glass - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Glass manufacture - Great Britain - History - 19th century Material culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
0191525510
9780191525513 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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-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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809477103321 |
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Armstrong Isobel
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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