TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otter,Chris
TI  - The Victorian eye: a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 
SN  - 0226640760
AV  - TH7703 .O88 2008
U1  - 303.483 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Lighting
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Optical engineering
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007043184-b.html
ER  -