Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920

Ocular Horizons

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, History
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Author: Martin Willis ISBN: 9780822981909
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: November 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Martin Willis
ISBN: 9780822981909
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: November 15, 2011
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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.

 

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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.

 

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