2 options
Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry / Joseph Bizup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bizup, Joseph, 1966-
- Series:
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England).
- Great Exhibition.
- Industries--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Industries.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Industries in literature.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Civilization.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction : industry as culture in nineteenth-century Britain
- One co-operative body : the rhetoric of the factory system
- Beautiful combinations : abstraction and technological beauty in the works of Charles Babbage
- A debilitated race : savageness in social investigation and design theory
- Appropriate beauty : the work of ornament in the age of mechanical reproduction
- What you ought to learn : industrial culture and the Exhibition of 1851
- Only a machine before : manliness and mechanism in Ruskin and Morris.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813922461
- OCLC:
- 52271528
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.