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02054aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 112DF3B4177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 201002s2021 ctua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300233817 020 $a 9780300233810 035 $a (OCoLC)1198559269 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a Z1033.M6 $b F67 2021 082 04 $a 016.099 $2 23 100 1 $a Forsberg, Laura, $e author. 245 10 $a Worlds beyond : $b miniatures and Victorian fiction / $c Laura Forsberg. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 284 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature books that were created by Charlotte and Branwell Bronte in their youth and that, as Gaskell later recalled, "contained an immense amount of manuscript, in an inconceivably small space." Far from being singular wonders, these two-inch volumes were part of a wide array of miniature marvels that filled the drawers and pockets of middle- and upper-class Victorians. Victorian miniatures pushed the boundaries of scientific knowledge, mechanical production, and human perception. To touch a miniature was to imagine what lay beyond these boundaries.00In 'Worlds Beyond', Laura Forsberg reads major works of fiction by George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Lewis Carroll alongside minor genres like the doll narrative, fairy science tract, and thumb Bible. Forsberg guides readers through microscopic science, art history, children's culture, and book production to show how Victorian miniatures offered scripts for expansive fantasies of worlds beyond perception. 650 0 $a Miniature books. 650 0 $a Printing $x History. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=112DF3B4177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search