Victorian glassworlds : glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880 /
Isobel Armstrong.
Bok Engelsk 2008 Isobel. Armstrong,· Electronic books.
Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, , c2008.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (470 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency; PART I: FACETS OF GLASS CULTURE: MAKING AND BREAKING GLASS; PART II: PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS; PART III: LENS-MADE IMAGES: OPTICAL TOYS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - 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
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ISBN | 978-0-920520-2
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