
Victorian Material Culture
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2022
Book
2994 pages
978-1-138-22526-8 (ISBN)
Description
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things.
The volumes are organized thematically and focus on key elements of materials, processes and production. Sources for each volume have been selected and critically introduced by a group of leading experts working across a variety of scholarly disciplines. Series titles include Science and Medicine, Invention and Technology, Victorian Arts, Raw Materials, Manufactured Things and Fashionable Things.
The volumes are organized thematically and focus on key elements of materials, processes and production. Sources for each volume have been selected and critically introduced by a group of leading experts working across a variety of scholarly disciplines. Series titles include Science and Medicine, Invention and Technology, Victorian Arts, Raw Materials, Manufactured Things and Fashionable Things.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
136 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
136 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
5780 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-22526-8 (9781138225268)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Victoria Mills is Lecturer in Victorian and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, Univesity of London, UK
Tatiana Kontou is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Tatiana Kontou is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Editor
School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
Cambridge University, UK
Content
Volume 1: Raw Materials
Volume 2: Science and Medicine
Volume 3: Inventions and Technology
Volume 4: Manufactured Things
Volume 5: Fashionable Things
Volume 6: Victorian Arts
Volume 2: Science and Medicine
Volume 3: Inventions and Technology
Volume 4: Manufactured Things
Volume 5: Fashionable Things
Volume 6: Victorian Arts