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Author:

Bizup, Joseph, 1966-

Title:

Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry / Joseph Bizup.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Great Exhibition--(1851 :--London, England)
Industries--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Industries in literature.
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

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.

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

ISBN:

9780813922461 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813922461 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52271528

LCCN:

2003009463

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)