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A fun, illustrated history of the umbrella's surprising place in life and literature Humans have been making, using, perfecting, and decorating umbrellas for millennia--holding them over the heads of rulers, signalling class distinctions, and exploring their full imaginative potential in folk tales and novels. In the spirit of the best literary gift books, Brolliology is a beautifully designed and illustrated tour through literature and history. It surprises us with the crucial role that the oft-overlooked umbrella has played over centuries--and not just in keeping us dry. Marion Rankine elevates umbrellas to their rightful place as an object worthy of philosophical inquiry. As Rankine points out, many others have tried. Derrida sought to find the meaning (or lack thereof) behind an umbrella mentioned in Nietzsche's notes, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote essays on the handy object, and Dickens used umbrellas as a narrative device for just about everything. She tackles the gender, class, and social connotations of carrying an umbrella and helps us realize our deep connection to this most forgettable everyday object--which we only think of when we don't have one.
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Presents the history of umbrellas and includes an explanation of how they work, how they came to be, and how their purpose and popularity have changed over time.
Excerpt from Umbrellas and Their History We can happily estimate the value of such a friend as the Umbrella, the silent companion of our walks abroad, a companion inco'mparably superior to those slimy water-proof abominations so urgently recom mended to us; for, at least, the Umbrella cannot be accused of injuring the health as they have been, as it appears, with very good reasons. In fact, so long as the climate of Yankeedom remains as it is, so long will Umbrellas hold their ground in public esteem; and we do not believe that the clerk of the weather will allow himself to be bribed into any alteration, at least for trade considerations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.