Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons
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Bibliographic Information
Vision, science and literature, 1870-1920 : ocular horizons
（Science and culture in the nineteenth century, 15）
Pickering & Chatto, 2011
- : hbk
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 of Contents
Introduction - Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science, Literature Part I: Small 1 Miscroscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria 2 Miscroscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction Part II: Large 3 Optical Shuttering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision 4 Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science Part III: Past 5 Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund 6 Egyptologian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing Part IV: Future 7 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance 8 Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism Afterword
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