Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880

by Isobel Armstrong

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and
philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period.

The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199205205
• ISBN13: 9780199205202
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.7"