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Victorian Things
Victorian Things
by Asa Briggs
University of Chicago Press, 1989 Cloth: 978-0-226-07483-2
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
"No Victorianist, however well read, could fail to learn something from this book. It is a veritable plum pudding, bursting with interesting information and experience."—Christopher A. Kent, Victorian Periodicals Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Things as Emissaries
2. "The Great Victorian Collection"
3. "The Philosophy of the Eye" Spectacles, Cameras and the New Vision
4. "Images of Fame"
5. "The Wonders of Common Things"
6. "Hearth and Home"
7. Hats, Caps and Bonnets
8. "Carboniferous Capitalism": Coal, Iron, and Paper
9. Stamps—Used and Unused
10. New Things—and Old
Bibliographical Note
Index