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The Victorian eye : a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 / Chris Otter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226640760
  • 9780226640761
  • 0226640779
  • 9780226640778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 23
LOC classification:
  • TH7703 .O88 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Light, vision, and power -- The Victorian eye : the physiology, sociology, and spatiality of vision, 1800-1900 -- Oligoptic engineering : light and the Victorian city -- The age of inspectability : vision, space, and the Victorian city -- The government of light : gasworks, gaslight, and photometry -- Technologies of illumination, 1870-1910 -- Securing perception : assembling electricity networks -- Patterns of perception.
Summary: During the 19th century, Britain became the first gaslit society. At the same time, the government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This study examines the way people saw and were seen in this gaslit age, and how this affected Victorian culture.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-363) and index.

Light, vision, and power -- The Victorian eye : the physiology, sociology, and spatiality of vision, 1800-1900 -- Oligoptic engineering : light and the Victorian city -- The age of inspectability : vision, space, and the Victorian city -- The government of light : gasworks, gaslight, and photometry -- Technologies of illumination, 1870-1910 -- Securing perception : assembling electricity networks -- Patterns of perception.

During the 19th century, Britain became the first gaslit society. At the same time, the government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This study examines the way people saw and were seen in this gaslit age, and how this affected Victorian culture.

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