Martin Willis

Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 (eBook, ePUB)

Ocular Horizons

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 principlessmall, large, past and futureto 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981909
• Artikelnr.: 45689297

Autorenporträt

Martin Willis is professor of English literature at Cardiff University.