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Vision, science, and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons / by Martin Willis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willis, Martin, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 15.
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vision--History--19th century.
- Vision.
- Vision--Social aspects--History--19th century.
- Vision--Philosophy--History--19th century.
- Literature and science--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Vision, Science & Literature, 1870-1920
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science and Literature; Part I: Small; 1 Microscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria; 2 Microscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction; Part II: Large; 3 Optical Shattering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision; 4 Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science; Part III: Past.
- 5 Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund6 Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing; Part IV: Future; 7 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance; 8 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285).
- ISBN:
- 9786613292032
- 9781315655369
- 1315655365
- 9780822981909
- 0822981904
- 9781317321842
- 1317321847
- 9781317321859
- 1317321855
- 9781283292030
- 1283292033
- 9781848932357
- 1848932359
- OCLC:
- 759860949
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