Poetics and Perspectives

Roundtable: Victorian Glassworlds a procession.Unlike print sources, the survival of material artefacts is a matter of chance.But this is recent past and objects like these do survive; the Victoria and Albert Museum glass gallery has some on display and many more in its readily accessible store.I longed for Armstrong to engage with the fragile physicality of these things, the verbal representation of which she so eloquently invokes.All that I read and saw in this book raised, like a spectre, the three dimensional material particularity of glass like some promised gift, described, invoked, but ultimately withheld

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