Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics

In his 1993 book retracing the history of synthetic dyestuffs, Anthony S. Travis describes the 19th century chemists who devised new aniline dyes for the expanding textile industry as “rainbow makers”. By conflating the materiality of coloured textiles and the prismatic hues of the sacred bow, Travi...

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Main Author: Charlotte Ribeyrol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAES 2017-04-01
Series:Angles
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1548
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