Title Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 : Ocular Horizons

Published London : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (308 pages) Series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century ; v. 15 Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science and Literature; Part I: Small; 1. Microscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria; 2. Microscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction; Part II: Large; 3. Optical Shattering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision; 4. Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science; Part III: Past 5. Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund6. Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing; Part IV: Future; 7. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance; 8. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index Notes Print version record Subject Literature and science -- History -- 19th century Vision -- History -- 19th century Vision -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century Vision -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century Literature and science. Vision. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822981909 0822981904

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