Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry / Joseph Bizup.
Published / Created:
Charlottesville ; University of Virginia Press, 2003.London : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Physical Description:
xii, 229 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.
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.
Subject Terms:
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century. | Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837–1901. | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) | Industries in literature.