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Broken Glass, Broken World: Glass in French Culture in the Aftermath of 1870

By Hannah Scott
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By Hannah Scott
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Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: from the monumental to the minuscule, glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet as the bombshells and fires of the Année Terrible wreaked havoc upon Paris in 1870-71, this modern dreamland was harrowed by the sight and sound of shattering glass.

In this interdisciplinary study, Hannah Scott combines cultural history with close literary a...

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