The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521089524)

This innovative, interdisciplinary study explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. It draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling as well as pre-Raphaelite and realist painters including Millais, Burne-Jones, William Powell Frith and Whistler, and a host of Victorian scientists, cultural commentators and art critics. Topics discussed include blindness, memory, hallucination, dust, and the importance of the horizon--a dazzling array of subjects linked together by the operations of the eye and brain. This richly illustrated book will appeal to anyone studying Victorian culture.

Author: Kate Flint,Flint Kate
ISBN-10: 0521089522
ISBN-13: 9780521089524
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2008
Pages: 444
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.90d