Manufacturing culture
Subtitle: vindications of early Victorian industry
By: Joseph Bizup.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : industry as culture in nineteenth-century Britain; title: One co-operative body : the rhetoric of the factory system; title: Beautiful combinations : abstraction and technological beauty in the works of Charles Babbage; title: A debilitated race : savageness in social investigation and design theory; title: Appropriate beauty : the work of ornament in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: What you ought to learn : industrial culture and the Exhibition of 1851; title: Only a machine before : manliness and mechanism in Ruskin and Morris.