The Victorians and the Visual Imagination

by Kate Flint

Book Overview

The Victorians and the Visual Imagination is an exciting and innovative exploration of the Victorians' attitudes towards sight. Tantalized by physiologists who proved the unreliability of the eye, intrigued by the role of subjectivity within vision, and provoked by new technologies of spectatorship, the Victorians were also imaginatively stirred by the sense of a world which lay just out of human sight. This interdisciplinary study draws on writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089522
• ISBN13: 9780521089524
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"