TY - JOUR
AU - McDonagh, Josephine
AB - ROUNDTABLE: VICTORIAN GLASSWORLDS Josephine McDonagh Isobel, Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) In keeping with JVC’s mission to respond to innovation within Victorian scholarship, we turn our attention to Isobel Armstrong’s major new book on the history and phenomenology of glass in the nineteenth century. Over her long career, Armstrong has earned a reputation as one of the most original and influential literary and cultural critics in Britain today. Her exhaustively researched and boldly argued studies have shaped the field for the current generation of scholars. Her work on Victorian poetry – especially the anthology Nineteenth-Century Women Poets (co-edited with Joseph Bristow and Cath Sharrock, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) and her monograph Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993) – has entirely revised the map of nineteenth-century poetry. The Radical Aesthetic (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000), a complex and wide-ranging examination of the turn to the anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing, anticipates more recent critical preoccupations, including the ‘poetics of emotion’, and questions about the possibility of a democratic aesthetic. In Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880, Armstrong considers the nineteenth century as ‘the era of public glass’. A 
TI - Introduction
JF - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.3366/E1355550209000617
DA - 2009-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/introduction-Si4XiaC3og
SP - 94
EP - 94
VL - 14
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -