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Victorian Glassworlds

Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880

By: Isobel Armstrong

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Victorian Glassworlds

Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880

By: Isobel Armstrong

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.

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OUP Oxford

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0191607126

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A Countryside Miscellany

By: Isobel Carlson

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A Countryside Miscellany

By: Isobel Carlson

Lovers of the great outdoors will be inspired by this miscellany of quotations, poems and beautiful prose celebrating the natural world. From Elizabeth von Arnim to Oscar Wilde, this charming collection explores every aspect of the countryside, from the first bluebells of spring to a hilltop walk on a crisp winter’s day.

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167

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Summersdale

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1783721324

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9781783721320

Trugs, Dibbers, Trowels and Twine

Gardening Tips, Words of Wisdom and Inspiration on the Simplest of Pleasures

By: Isobel Carlson

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Gardening Tips, Words of Wisdom and Inspiration on the Simplest of Pleasures

By: Isobel Carlson

Follow the garden path to horticultural heaven with this compendium of blossoming inspiration and tips for making your garden grow. Learn about banning bugs and slugs and attracting beneficial creatures, recycling your old household items for gardening solutions – and why you should always keep a leek in your attic.

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178685645X

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Things a Woman Wants to Know

An Edwardian Housewife’s Guide to Life

By: Isobel of “Home Notes”

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Things a Woman Wants to Know

An Edwardian Housewife’s Guide to Life

By: Isobel of “Home Notes”

This book of handy hints for the new housewife was first published in the Edwardian era, and includes recipes, medical advice, fashion tips and the dangers that can lurk in the home (e.g. the unhealthiness of carpets and the poisonous colours of wallpaper). In this new edition, the most unusual entertaining pieces of advice have been collected together along with the charming contemporary advertisement and a fascinating section about folding serviettes.

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189

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783660074

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9781783660070

With Scott in the Antarctic

Edward Wilson: Explorer, Naturalist, Artist

By: Isobel Williams

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With Scott in the Antarctic

Edward Wilson: Explorer, Naturalist, Artist

By: Isobel Williams

Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his celebrated Antarctic voyages: the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Wilson served as Junior Surgeon and Zoologist on Discovery and, on this expedition, with Scott and Ernest Shackleton he set a new Furthest South on 30 December 1902. He was Chief of Scientific Staff on the Terra Nova Expedition and reached the South Pole with Scott, Lawrence Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans on 18 January 1912, arriving there four weeks after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Wilson and his four companions died on the return journey. Trained as a physician, Wilson was also a skilled artist. His drawings and paintings lavishly illustrated both expeditions. He was the last major exploration artist; technological developments in the field of photography were soon to make cameras practical as a way of recording journeys into the unknown. This biography, the first full account of the Antarctic hero, traces his life from childhood to his tragic death.

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343

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The History Press

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0752473522

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9780752473529

Performing Image

By: Isobel Harbison

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Performing Image

By: Isobel Harbison

An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era. In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this work anticipates our changing relations to images since the advent of smart phones and the spread of online prosumerism. Over this period, artists have used a variety of DIY modes of self-imaging and circulation—from home video to social media—suggesting how and why Western subjects might seek alternative platforms for self-expression and self-representation. In the course of her argument, Harbison offers close analyses of works by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Mark Leckey, Wu Tsang, and Martine Syms. Harbison argues that while we produce images, images also produce us—those that we take and share, those that we see and assimilate through mass media and social media, those that we encounter in museums and galleries. Although all the artists she examines express their relation to images uniquely, they also offer a vantage point on today's productive-consumptive image circuits in which billions of us are caught. This unregulated, all-encompassing image performativity, Harbison writes, puts us to work, for free, in the service of global corporate expansion. Harbison offers a three-part interpretive framework for understanding this new proximity to images as it is negotiated by these artworks, a detailed outline of a set of connected practices—and a declaration of the value of art in an economy of attention and a crisis of representation.

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257

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MIT Press

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0262039214

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9780262039215

Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA 1849-1914

Time to Remember

By: Isobel P. Williams

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Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA 1849-1914

Time to Remember

By: Isobel P. Williams

In 1848 Europe was in turmoil. People were starving, work was scarce. Hubert Herkomer’s father, a Bavarian woodcarver, emigrated to the United States with his wife, a musician, and their two-year-old son. But the settled future they hoped for did not materialize – after struggling for six years, the family borrowed money and settled in Southampton. They were almost penniless. With his father’s encouragement, he picked up the paintbrush. At 13 he could paint in oils. Though art school was a disastrous experience, he sold his first painting at 19. His creative mind would end up contributing to multiple fields from photography to car racing. But fame is a roller coaster. Hubert’s loyalty to Germany (and Britain) during the lead up to World War 1 resulted in personal and artistic unpopularity. He died just before the war. However, his vivid and evocative work regained its value in the second half of the twentieth century, restoring his reputation as an artistic paragon and visual chronicler of the Victorian and Edwardian age. This is the story of an artist and his art-filled life.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398401897

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9781398401891

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

By: John Wilks,Isobel Knight

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Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

By: John Wilks,Isobel Knight

The Bowen technique resets and repairs the body, restoring balance to relieve pain and improve energy. This book shows how it can be particularly effective at alleviating conditions that are renowned for being difficult to treat, as well as at enhancing performance in dance and other sports. Covering lower back pain, frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, hayfever, asthma, diabetes (type 2), migraines, stress and tension disorders, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, palliative care, performance enhancement, and in pre and post-natal care, clinical case studies reveal Bowen technique in action along with detailed explanations of how and why Bowen is so effective for each of these different situations. This is the perfect book for Bowen practitioners, and other complementary and alternative health practitioners and medical professionals wanting to know how and why the Bowen technique can help their patients, as well as patients interested in learning about what Bowen can do for them.

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386

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Singing Dragon

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0857011294

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9780857011299

Novel Politics

Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By: Isobel Armstrong

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Novel Politics

Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By: Isobel Armstrong

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel. This assumes that the novel is structured by bourgeois ideology and morality, so that its default position is conservative and hegemonic. Such critique comes alike from Marxists, readers of nineteenth-century liberalism, and critics making claims for the working-class novel, and systematically under-reads democratic imaginations and social questioning in novels of the period. To undo such readings means evolving a new praxis of critical writing. Rather than addressing the explicitly political and deeply limited accounts of the machinery of franchise and ballot in texts, it is important to create a poetics of the novel that opens up its radical aspects. This can be done partly by taking a new look at some classic nineteenth-century political texts (Mill, De Tocqueville, Hegel), but centrally by exploring four claims: the novel is an open Inquiry (compare philosophical Inquiries of the Enlightenment contemporary with the novel's genesis), a lived interrogation, not a pre-formed political document; radical thinking requires radical formal experiment, creating generic and ideological disruption simultaneously and putting the so-called realist novel and its values under pressure; the poetics of social and phenomenological space reveals an analysis of the dispossessed subject, not the bildung of success or overcoming; the presence of the aesthetic and art works in the novel is a constant source of social questioning. Among texts discussed, six novels of illegitimacy, from Jane Austen to Scott to George Eliot and George Moore, stand out because illegitimacy, with its challenge to social norms, is a test case for the novelist, and a growing point of the democratic imagination.

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Oxford University Press

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0192512447

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9780192512444

Multi-disciplinary Approach to Managing EDSIII

By: Isobel Knight

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Multi-disciplinary Approach to Managing EDSIII

By: Isobel Knight

This book presents an overview of what it means to treat a chronic complex patient with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDSIII). It explores the exercise and rehabilitation work needed to manage the condition effectively, considering a wide range of medical and complementary approaches with contributions and insights throughout from leading experts.

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Singing Dragon

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1848190808

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9781848190801

A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)

Bending without Breaking (2nd edition)

By: Isobel Knight

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A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)

Bending without Breaking (2nd edition)

By: Isobel Knight

Covering everything from recognising symptoms and obtaining initial diagnosis to living with the condition on a daily basis, this complete guide to living with and managing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type - formerly known as Type III) has been revised and fully-updated in this accessible new edition. The author, who has the condition, looks at how it affects children and adolescents and explores pain management, pregnancy, physical and psychological aspects, and how it widely affects dancers and other performance artists. New material includes: changes in terminology information on how osteopathy and nutrition can help psychological approaches beyond CBT how to deal with professionals what to expect from support groups and rehabilitation programmes This new edition will be a must for anybody who suffers, or suspects they might be suffering from, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type) and provides everything needed to enjoy a fulfilling life with this complex condition. It will also be of interest to their families and friends, and professionals working with Hypermobility Type EDS.

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314

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Singing Dragon

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0857011804

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9780857011800

Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier

By: Christian Isobel Johnstone

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Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier

By: Christian Isobel Johnstone

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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342

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368775839

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9783368775834

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

The Feminine of Homer

By: Isobel Hurst

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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

The Feminine of Homer

By: Isobel Hurst

In this study, Isobel Hurst brings together two lines of enquiry in recent criticism: the Romantic and Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, and women as writers and readers in the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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262

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Oxford University Press

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0199283516

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9780199283514

This Life I've Loved

By: Isobel Field

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This Life I've Loved

By: Isobel Field

Isobel Field, the stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, was a wonderful storyteller, and a writer of great wit and acuity. She was with her mother, Fanny, when they met Stevenson in Grez, France, in 1876; when Fanny and Louis married in 1880 in San Francisco and at the Silverado sojourn; with the Stevensons in Hawaii in the late 1880s; and finally with them in Samoa from 1890 until Stevenson's death in 1894.

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Great West Books

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0944220185

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9780944220184

RUIN, Book One

The Tent City

By: Isobel Noble

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RUIN, Book One

The Tent City

By: Isobel Noble

A collage of adventure, futuristic fiction, fascinating and unforgettable characters.

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390

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EarthBound Books

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0977181804

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9780977181803

The Geography of Recreation and Leisure

By: Isobel Cosgrove,Richard Jackson

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The Geography of Recreation and Leisure

By: Isobel Cosgrove,Richard Jackson

Originally published in 1972, this book discusses changing attitudes to work and leisure and patterns of leisure activity, asking if recreation, as an economic activity, a distinctive spatial expression. It examines characteristics of spa towns and coastal resorts in the nineteenth century as well as provision of leisure amenities in urban and rural areas of contemporary Britain and the changing levels of demand for and supply of recreation in North America.

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167

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Routledge

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1317332385

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9781317332381

Book's by Isobel Wood

Victorian Glassworlds

Victorian Glassworlds

A Countryside Miscellany

A Countryside Miscellany

Trugs, Dibbers, Trowels and Twine

Trugs, Dibbers, Trowels and Twine

Things a Woman Wants to Know

Things a Woman Wants to Know

With Scott in the Antarctic

With Scott in the Antarctic

Performing Image

Performing Image

Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA 1849-1914

Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA 1849-1914

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

Using the Bowen Technique to Address Complex and Common Conditions

Novel Politics

Novel Politics

Multi-disciplinary Approach to Managing EDSIII

Multi-disciplinary Approach to Managing EDSIII

A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)

A Guide to Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type)

Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier

Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

Victorian Women Writers and the Classics

This Life I've Loved

This Life I've Loved

RUIN, Book One

RUIN, Book One

The Geography of Recreation and Leisure

The Geography of Recreation and Leisure

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