Author: Carol Belanger Grafton Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486997896 Category : Clip art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This immensely practical archive of old-time illustrations not only offers a wonderful glimpse of personal items and domestic accessories from a bygone era, it's also an absolute treasure chest of easily reproducible graphic art. More than 900 cuts, culled from rare nineteenth-century periodicals, have been organized in convenient categories: clothes, furniture, kitchenware, toys and games, musical instruments, stationery supplies, and much more. Today's artists, advertisers, and craftspeople can choose from items ranging from fans, corsets, and parasols to a typewriter, feather duster, and high-topped "storm slippers." A comprehensive compendium of immediately usable images, this virtually inexhaustible supply of design inspiration will also thrill nostalgia enthusiasts, cultural historians, and lovers of Victoriana.
Author: Leah Price Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400842182 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 361
Book Description
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap? Shedding new light on novels by Thackeray, Dickens, the Brontës, Trollope, and Collins, as well as the urban sociology of Henry Mayhew, Leah Price also uncovers the lives and afterlives of anonymous religious tracts and household manuals. From knickknacks to wastepaper, books mattered to the Victorians in ways that cannot be explained by their printed content alone. And whether displayed, defaced, exchanged, or discarded, printed matter participated, and still participates, in a range of transactions that stretches far beyond reading. Supplementing close readings with a sensitive reconstruction of how Victorians thought and felt about books, Price offers a new model for integrating literary theory with cultural history. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain reshapes our understanding of the interplay between words and objects in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486248224 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 122
Book Description
Over 340 handsome and botanically accurate wood engravings selected from two classic Victorian publications: Paxton's Flower Garden and The Natural History of Plants. Includes exquisite renderings of a broad spectrum of plant forms: baobab tree, quaking grass, winged pea, and many other unusual plants. Each illustration includes the scientific name and brief description.
Author: Maurice Baren Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
Brings together the stories and facts of a life very different from what we know today but which played a fascinating part in the development of what has been called a nation of shopkeepers (UK)
Author: Lynda Nead Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300085051 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
"In this innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a fresh account of modernity and metropolitan life. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern city in the 1860s and the emergence of new ways of producing and consuming visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Thomas Richards Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804719018 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
Book Description
This provocative and theoretically sophisticated book reveals how capitalism produced and sustained a culture of its own in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. "Richards provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising. Through an examination of five case studies, ranging from how advertisers employed images of the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 to their use of images of women just before WWI, he argues that the British developed a new type of culture in the mid and late-19th century--a new way of thinking and living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods, commodities. Revising the findings of some earlier scholars, Richards shows that 'cultural forms of consumerism . . . came into being well before the consumer economy did.' The 50 well-reproduced advertising images greatly enhance the value of this study." --M. Blackford, "Choice"
Author: Jim Harter Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 048613413X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Need a hand? Here are over a thousand! Over 1,100 pairs of hands in all shapes, sizes, and shades: writing, sewing, with pointing fingers, much more, all royalty-free.
Author: Cindy Sondik Aron Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195048741 Category : Civil service Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.
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