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EBOOK Victorian Glassworlds:Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191607127
EAN: 0C3B070FEB
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Stron: 472
Data wydania: 2008
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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 visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our        understanding of the Victorian period.The mass production of glass in the nineteenth        century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time        transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a        new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian        modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel,        and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the        texts and constituents of glass culture. Theglassworlds of the century are        heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace,        in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the        ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront,        in the production ofchandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of        the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two        inescapable conditions.First, to look through glass was to look through the residues        of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by        incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new        medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation        into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern        philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass        took on material and ontological,political, and aesthetic meanings.Reading glass        forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass        culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in        three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the        individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial        tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two,        culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads theglassing of the        environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the        conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the        lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and        microscope were known.A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian        Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.

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