Kriegel / Walkowitz Grand Designs

Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9053-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Radical Perspectives

Combines cultural and labor history of Victorian Britain to investigate the relationship of culture to design, the role of the marketplace in the making of cultural institutions such as museums, and England's eventual loss of industrial superiority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kriegel, Lara

Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xv

1. Introduction

Chapter One. Configuring Design: Artisans, Aesthetics, and Aspiration in Early Victorian Britain 19

Chapter Two. Originality and Sin: Calico, Capitalism, and the Copyright of Design, 1839-1851 52

Chapter Three. Commodification and Its Discontents: Labor, Print Culture, and Industrial Art at the Great Exhibition of 1851 86

Chapter Four. Principled Disagreements: The Museum of Ornamental Art and Its Critics, 1852-1856 126

Chapter Five. Cultural Locations: South Kensington, Bethnal Green, and the Working Man, 1857-1872 160

Afterword. Travels in South kensington 191

Notes 203

Bibliography 253

Index 293

Über Autor(innen)

Lara Kriegel is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University.