| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Glass -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Glass. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Glass manufacture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Glass manufacture. |
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Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Material culture. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian glassworlds. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199205202 0199205205 (DLC) 2008299520 (OCoLC)183915512 |
| ISBN |
9780191525513 (electronic book) |
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0191525510 (electronic book) |
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1281515302 |
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9781281515308 |
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0199205205 |
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9780199205202 |
| Standard No. |
9786611515300 |
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