Main entry:

Armstrong, Isobel.

Title & Author:

Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / Isobel Armstrong.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008.

Description:

xix, 449 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index.
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 -- 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.
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Summary:

Isobel Armstrong's book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in 19th-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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ISBN:

9780199205202 (hbk.)
0199205205 (hbk.)

Subject:

Glass Great Britain History 19th century.
Glass manufacture Great Britain History 19th century.
Material culture Great Britain History 19th century.
Verre Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Verre Fabrication Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Culture matérielle Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Glass.
Glass manufacture.
Intellectual life.
Material culture.
Glas
Glasbau
Glasherstellung
Glasbruk Storbritannien 1800-talet.
Glaskonst Storbritannien 1800-talet.
Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Storbritannien intellektuellt liv historia 1800-talet.
Geschichte 1830-1880

Form/genre:

History.

Host item:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Added entries:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259329
Call No.: BIB 190254
Status: Available