Manufacturing culture : vindications of early Victorian industry - Bizup, Joseph, 1966- (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Keywords: Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Industries in literature; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.