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Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.