Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing

Potter, Jonathan (2017) Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-89736-3

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Abstract

Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain 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.

Item Type:	Book
Identification Number:	10.1007/978-3-319-89737-0
Dates:	Date Event 2018 UNSPECIFIED 28 August 2017 Accepted
Subjects:	CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies CAH19 - language and area studies > CAH19-01 - English studies > CAH19-01-01 - English studies (non-specific) CAH20 - historical, philosophical and religious studies > CAH20-01 - history and archaeology > CAH20-01-01 - history
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of English and Media
Depositing User:	Jonathan Potter
Date Deposited:	24 May 2019 13:16
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 12:08
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7499

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