04469nam 2200985 a 450 991096122400332120250116173949.09786611966126978128196612412819661269780226640785022664078710.7208/9780226640785(CKB)1000000000578308(EBL)432273(OCoLC)567944008(SSID)ssj0000267316(PQKBManifestationID)11213450(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267316(PQKBWorkID)10333044(PQKB)10202330(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122021(MiAaPQ)EBC432273(DE-B1597)524977(DE-B1597)9780226640785(Au-PeEL)EBL432273(CaPaEBR)ebr10265915(CaONFJC)MIL196612(Perlego)1842610(EXLCZ)99100000000057830820071017d2008 uy 0engurcn#---uuuuutxtccrThe Victorian eye a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 /Chris OtterFirst editionChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (x, 382 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.9780226640778 0226640779 9780226640761 0226640760 Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Light, Vision, and Power --1. The Victorian Eye: The Physiology, Sociology, and Spatiality of Vision, 1800-1900 --2. Oligoptic Engineering: Light and the Victorian City --3. The Age of Inspectability: Vision, Space, and the Victorian City --4. The Government of Light: Gasworks, Gaslight, and Photometry --5. Technologies of Illumination, 1870-1910 --6. Securing Perception: Assembling Electricity Networks --Conclusion: Patterns of Perception --Notes --Bibliography --IndexDuring the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administPolitical history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910LightingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLightingGreat BritainHistory20th centuryLightingSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistoryLightingPolitical aspectsGreat BritainHistoryOptical engineeringGreat BritainHistory19th centuryVisual perceptionSCIENCEPhilosophy & Social AspectsbisacshTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERINGSocial AspectsbisacshLightingfast(OCoLC)fst00998642LightingSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00998661Manners and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01007815Optical engineeringfast(OCoLC)fst0174Visual perceptionfast(OCoLC)fst01168049Great BritainSocial life and customs19th centuryLightingHistoryLightingHistoryLightingSocial aspectsHistory.LightingPolitical aspectsHistory.Optical engineeringHistoryVisual perception.SCIENCEPhilosophy & Social Aspects.TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERINGSocial Aspects.LightingLightingSocial aspectsManners and customsOptical engineeringVisual perception303.48/3Otter Chris1809839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961224003321The Victorian eye4360841UNINA