Hardcover
1995 · Great Britain
by Smith, Lindsay
Great Britain: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1995. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Like new boards and block - clean and tight. Minor wear to dust cover.. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Black and white illustrated dj. xiii 246 pp. 12 b+w plates. "This book explores the intersections between Victorian literature, painting, and photography. Taking as a starting point mid-nineteenth century developments in the understanding of visual perception. Lindsay Smith examines the representation of a pervasive desire for a literal understanding of the process of seeing and perceiving...She demonstrates how the novel presence of the camera in nineteenth-century culture not only transforms acts of looking, but also affects major social, aesthetic, and philosophical categories." - front flap dj. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 6.
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