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- W3156458519 abstract "This thesis attempts to define a visual culture of plate glass in Canada during the second half of the nineteenth century. I approach this material through descriptions and depictions in Canadian periodicals of Victorian era structures that utilized large expanses of plate glass, namely, Canadian versions of the “Crystal Palace” exhibition building, and modern mass market department stores with large storefront display windows. In Canadian publications, these plate glass surfaces often take on certain metaphorical significance, coming to stand in for modernity, to signify purity by their clarity, or to promise a quintessentially modern honesty and openness, as their solid surfaces maintained visual limpidity. However, though glass is allusive in many ways, its signification also remained elusive. Any meaning that glass may encompass is always accompanied by its own opposite; glass can change in a moment from lucid to reflective, from refracting beams of bright light to darkening and dulling, and though it is a physically protective layer, it also permits unmitigated visual connection. The relationship of nineteenth-century Canadian periodicals to the material is marked by this ambiguity. I suggest that glass’s physical capacity for dualism is an apt metaphor for the way that the meanings it signified were often contradictory, even when simultaneous. I argue that in the Canadian context, the paradoxes encompassed by the developing cultural imaginaries around glass are mirrored by the paradoxes of Victorian Canadians’ ambiguous and conflicting relationships with nationalism and modernization." @default.
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- W3156458519 title "An Elusive Allusivity: Paradox in the Representation of Plate Glass in Canada, 1851-1900" @default.
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