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.
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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.