Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing

Author:   Jonathan Potter
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2018 ed.
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9783319897363


Pages:   269
Publication Date:   09 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jonathan Potter
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2018 ed.
Weight:   0.493kg
ISBN:  

9783319897363


ISBN 10:   3319897365
Pages:   269
Publication Date:   09 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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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