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Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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This book offers an innovative reassessment of the way Victorians thought and wrote about visual experience. It argues that new visual technologies gave expression to new ways of seeing, using these to uncover the visual discourses that facilitated, informed and shaped the way people conceptualised and articulated visual experience. In doing so, the book reconsiders literary and non-fiction works by well-known authors including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, G.H. Lewes, Max Nordau, Herbert Spencer, and Joseph Conrad, as well as shedding light on less-known works drawn from the periodical press. By revealing the discourses that formed around visual technologies, the book challenges and builds upon existing scholarship to provide a powerful new model by which to understand how the Victorians experienced, conceptualised, and wrote about vision.

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ISBN: 9783030078423
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Author: Jonathan Potter
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 269 pages
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literature: history and criticism