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Zusatztext a rich! vituoso concoction of literary and historical sources ... It is full of clever and challenging ideas about a material that! since the Victorian period! has become an essential component of modern life. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
List of contents
- Introduction: The Poetics of Transparency
- PART 1 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 11 PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS
- 5: Reflections, Translucency, Aura, 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 111 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 Mobilising the Fixed Image - Memory, Repetition, and Working Through
- Conclusion: the End of Glass Culture - from Nineteenth-Century Modernity to Modernism
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Intellectually, theoretically, and methodologically, Victorian Glassworlds is a remarkable study to which scholars working in the field of Victorian studies will return again and again. Mike Sanders, Modern Philology
