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Novel craft : Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction /

"Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms the "craft paradigm"--A set of beliefs about representation, production, consumption, value, and beauty that were crucial to mid-Victorian thought. She uncovers how handicrafts expressed anxieties about modernity and offered an alternative to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schaffer, Talia, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Women's" work: the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft
  • Ephemerality: the Cranford papers
  • Preservation: the daisy and the chain
  • Salvage: Betty as the mutual friend
  • Connoisseurship: giving credit to Phoebe junior
  • Postscript: the novelty of craft.