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Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 [EPUB ebook]
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<b>Winner of the British Society for Literature and Science Annual Prize, 2011</b>
<b>Winner of the Cultural Studies in English Prize, 2012</b>
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 principles—small, large, past and future—to 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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<b>Martin Willis</b> is professor of English literature at Cardiff University.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 411 ● ISBN 9780822981909 ● File size 6.0 MB ● Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press ● City PIttsburgh ● Country US ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5846318 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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