This engaging study addresses the continuing controversy over industrialization, examining different perceptions of factories and factory work. Using varied sources such as sermons, medical treatises, fictional and visual representations, Robert Gray investigates the role of language in shaping the debate on factory reform, and relates conflicts over factory legislation to specific towns. The combination of regional, cultural and textual analysis makes this book an original contribution to the study of industrial Britain in the nineteenth century.
This engaging study addresses the continuing controversy over industrialization, examining different perceptions of factories and factory work. Using ...
With his poetry debut Creek Water Journal (1974), Robert Gray at once established his name as a highly original imaginist. He sees the rural world with an unerring eye; how man mars it and in time it re-establishes harmonies of its own. The city - Sydney in particular, with the play of water and light in the Harbour - plays a part. As well as the image poems there are discursive and narrative pieces.
With his poetry debut Creek Water Journal (1974), Robert Gray at once established his name as a highly original imaginist. He sees the rural world wit...
