Victorian Things

by Asa Briggs (Author)

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.95

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $4.19

  The restless curiosity of the Victorians, their search for higher levels of comfort, their passion for scientific advance and their general obsession with things inspired them to search the natural world, the artistic heritage of other cultures and ages and to apply their minds to devising solutions to a host of practical issues. This survey of Victorian material culture brings to life the material culture of one of the most inventive, and acquisitive, societies.

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.19

  A survey of Victorian material culture completing a trilogy with the author's two earlier studies, Victorian Cities and Victorian People . The author examines the objects and the way in which they express and reflect the preoccupations of Victorian society. Sections include information on museums and exhibitions, spectacles and camera, commemorative artifacts, home furnishings and decoration, matches, hats, coal, stamps, telephones and typewriters. The book is intended to raise important theoretical issues in such areas as cultural anthropology, the history of taste, semiology and semiotics.