Vision, science, and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons / / by Martin Willis [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Willis Martin <1971->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Pickering & Chatto, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 612.8409034
• Soggetto topico: Vision - History - 19th century; Vision - Social aspects - History - 19th century; Vision - Philosophy - History - 19th century; Literature and science - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 entwined with modernist rejections of objectivity.
• Altri titoli varianti: Vision, Science & Literature, 1870-1920
• Titolo autorizzato: Vision, science, and literature, 1870-1920
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807673003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; ; no. 15.