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The scope of this project is vast, and Potter's ability to synthesise its diversity of ideas into a coherent and compelling narrative is impressive. His bibliography is extensive and will prove of equal value to historians of visual media and those of Victorian culture. Most significantly, the book's discursive, pluralistic drive has prepared a fertile base from which similar-minded enquiries into the interactions between visual technology and thought can flourish - in studies of nineteenth-century Britain and beyond. (Thomas Haynes, Early Popular Visual Culture, October 4, 2019)

In Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing, Jonathan Potter's ambitious remit is how visual technologies shaped not only ways of seeing and thinking, but also the shape of literature itself. This is a smart, fully packed book ... . (SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 59 (4), 2019) The scope of this project is vast, and Potter's ability to synthesise its diversity of ideas into a coherent and compelling narrative is impressive. His bibliography is extensive and will prove of equal value to historians of visual media and those of Victorian culture. Most significantly, the book's discursive, pluralistic drive has prepared a fertile base from which similar-minded enquiries into the interactions between visual technology and thought can flourish - in studies of nineteenth-century Britain and beyond. (Thomas Haynes, Early Popular Visual Culture, October 4, 2019)

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Jonathan Potter completed his PhD at the University of Leicester in 2015 and now lectures and tutors at Coventry University, UK. 

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