Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry

by Joseph Bizup

Book Overview

From Robert Southey to William Morris, British social critics in the Romantic tradition consistently stigmatized industry as a threat to aesthetic or humanistic "culture." Joseph Bizup argues that early Victorian advocates of industry sought to resist the power inherent in this opposition by portraying automatic manufacture itself as a cultural force or agent. He traces the contours of this new proindustrial rhetoric as it coalesced in two mutually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922461
• ISBN13: 9780813922461
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher