The Victorian eye:a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910
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University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | x, 382 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780226640761 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226640760 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226640778 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226640779 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | K561 |
CLC: |
K561.4 O43-09 |
Call Number: | O43-09/O898 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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. |