Victorian glassworlds glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780191525513 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0191525510 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0199205205
ISBN: 9780199205202
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xix, 449 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. CatBulkString:jan.10.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-431) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.