Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Chris Mounsey

Book Overview

The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain, developing a new methodology for conceptualizing sight impairment. Beginning with a reconsideration of the place of sight correction as both idea and reality in eighteenth-century philosophical debates, Chris Mounsey traces the development of eye surgery by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943329
• ISBN13: 9780813943329
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"