Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry /

Bizup, Joseph, 1966-

Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry / Joseph Bizup. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003. - xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Victorian literature and culture series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.

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.

0813922461 (acid-free)

2003009463

GBA3-U4113


Great Exhibition London, England) (1851 :


Industries--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Industries in literature.


Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

DA 533 / .B57 2003