Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 / Isobel Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Isobel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glass--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Glass.

Glass manufacture--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Glass manufacture.

Material culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Material culture.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 449 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2008.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

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

Conclusion

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0191525510

9780191525513

OCLC:

476246620