UID:
almafu_9959234948802883
Format:
1 online resource (393 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-96612-6
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9786611966126
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0-226-64078-7
Content:
During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administ
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Light, Vision, and Power --
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1. The Victorian Eye: The Physiology, Sociology, and Spatiality of Vision, 1800-1900 --
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2. Oligoptic Engineering: Light and the Victorian City --
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3. The Age of Inspectability: Vision, Space, and the Victorian City --
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4. The Government of Light: Gasworks, Gaslight, and Photometry --
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5. Technologies of Illumination, 1870-1910 --
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6. Securing Perception: Assembling Electricity Networks --
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Conclusion: Patterns of Perception --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-64077-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-64076-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226640785
