Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular HorizonsRoutledge, 6 oct. 2015 - 320 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Science Imagination and the Phantasmagoria | |
Place and Identity in Laboratory Science | |
Percival Lowell Mars and Authorities of Vision | |
Wonder Imagination and Popular Science | |
Amelia Edwards Flinders Petrie and | |
The Artefact as Thing | |
Optics Ophthalmology | |
Sensation Spectacle | |
Afterword | |
Notes | |
Works Cited | |
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Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920: Ocular Horizons Martin Willis Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ancient Antoniadi archaeological archaeologist argues Arthur Conan Doyle astronomical audience Britain British Institute Cambridge canals Carmilla claims Conan Doyle context criminal Daston defined disease Doyle's Dracula Edwards EEFA Egypt Egyptian artefact Egyptologist escapology example excavation excavatory Exploration fiction Figure genre germ Gothic Harker Harry Houdini Helmholtz History of Science Holmes Holmes's Houdini Ibid identity illusion practice images imagination infection investigation Journal knowledge laboratory lecture Letter Lightman literary literature London looking Lowell Observatory Lowell's magical performance magicians Mars Martian canals Maskelyne microscopic vision narrator nineteenth century Observatory ocular offer ophthalmology optical illusions Oxford perception Percival Lowell Petrie's phantasmagoria phenomena planet popular astronomy popular science potential reader recognize relationship representation revealed role Routledge scientific object scientists séance spectacle Spiritualism spiritualist Stoker suggests telescope theory things tourist travel narratives travel writing tricks understanding University Press vampire Victorian visual culture W. M. F. Petrie Wells's wonder