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Author:
Forsberg, Laura, author.
Title:
Worlds beyond : miniatures and Victorian fiction / Laura Forsberg.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Miniature books.
Printing--History.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
0300233817
9780300233810
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1198559269
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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