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_aOtter, Chris _q(Christopher James), _eauthor. _9275810 |
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_aThe Victorian eye : _ba political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 / _cChris Otter. |
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_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2008. |
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_ax, 382 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm |
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505 | 0 | _aLight, 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. | |
520 | _aDuring 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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