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UNINA9910807673003321 |
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Autore |
Willis Martin <1971-> |
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Vision, science, and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons / / by Martin Willis [[electronic resource]] |
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London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2011 |
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1-315-65536-5 |
0-8229-8190-4 |
1-317-32184-7 |
1-317-32185-5 |
1-283-29203-3 |
9786613292032 |
1-84893-235-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; ; no. 15 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Vision - History - 19th century |
Vision - Social aspects - History - 19th century |
Vision - Philosophy - History - 19th century |
Literature and science - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria; 2. Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction; Optical Shattering; 4. Lowell's Minimum Visible; 5. Looking as Tourists and Scientists; 6. Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction; 7. Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance; 8. Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book explores the role of vision and the culture of observation in Victorian and modernist ways of seeing. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles - small, large, past and future - to survey Victorian conceptions of what vision was. He then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing, when anxieties over visual 'truth' became |
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