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Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920

Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 Ocular Horizons - Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher's Synopsis

Winner of the British Society for Literature and Science Annual Prize, 2011. Winner of the Cultural Studies in English Prize, 2012.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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780822965466
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 428g
Height: 153mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 39mm