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

By: Material type: TextSeries: Victorian literature and culture seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.Description: xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813922461 (acid-free)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DA 533 .B57 2003
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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.
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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.

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