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Victorian glassworlds: glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880
Isobel Armstrong
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xiii)
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Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency (page 1)
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PART I FACETS OF GLASS CULTURE: MAKING AND BREAKING GLASS
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1. Factory Tourism: Morphology of the 'Visit to a Glass Factory' (page 19)
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2. Robert Lucas Chance, Modern Glass Manufacturer: Fractures in the Glass Factory (page 37)
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3. Riot and the Grammar of Window-Breaking: The Chances, Wellington, Chartism (page 57)
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4. The Glassmakers' Eloquence: A Trade Union Journal, the Royal Commission 1868 (page 70)
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Conclusion (page 89)
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PART II PERSPECTIVES OF THE GLASS PANEL: WINDOWS, MIRRORS, WALLS
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5. Reflections, Translucency, Aura, and Trace (page 95)
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6. Glassing London: Building Glass Culture, Real and Imagined (page 133)
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7. Politics of the Conservatory: Glasshouses, Republican and Populist (page 167)
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8. Mythmaking: Cinderella and her Glass Slipper at the Crystal Palace (page 204)
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9. Glass under Glass: Glassworld Fictions (page 222)
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PART III LENS-MADE IMAGES: OPTICAL TOYS AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS
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10. The Lens, Light, and the Virtual World (page 253)
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11. Dissolving and Resolving Views: From Magic Lantern to Telescope (page 272)
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12. Microscopic Space (page 317)
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13. Crystalphiles, Anamorphobics, and Stereoscopic Volume (page 329)
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14. Coda on Time: Fixing the Moving Image and Mobilizing on the Fixed Image—Memory, Repetition, and Working Through (page 346)
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Conclusion: The End of Glass Culture—from Nineteenth-Century Modernity to Modernism (page 361)
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Notes (page 363)
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Bibliography (page 409)
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Index (page 433)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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VR | 38.1 (Spring. 2012): 226-227 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23646868 |
BM | 152.1282 (Jan. 2010): 47 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40601488 |
JRBS | 48.4 (Oct. 2009): 1018-1020 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/27752664 |
MP | 110.1 (August. 2012): 59-62 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/666602 |
VS | 51.2 (Winter. 2009): 365-367 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20537425 |
CQ | 37.4 (Dec. 2008): 446-450 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/42966998 |
RES | 60.245 (Jun. 2009): 505-507 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/40267586 |
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780199205202 (hardcover)
- 9780191607127 (ebook)