Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

1 primary work

Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920

by Martin Willis

Published 1 January 2011

This book explores the Victorian concept of vision across scientific and cultural forms. Willis charts the characterization of vision through four organizing principles – small, large, past and future – to arrive at a Victorian conception of what vision was. Willis then explores how this Victorian vision influenced twentieth-century ways of seeing.