Optical Impersonality: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism

by Christina Walter

Examines modernist writers' efforts to map the social implications of an evolving science of vision and visual culture.

Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid-nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and material world could not be so easily separated. Christina Walter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421413639
• ISBN13: 9781421413631
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"