The Victorian Eye

Author : Chris Otter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226640785

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The Victorian Eye by Chris Otter Pdf

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 administration. He explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading, as well as institutional efforts to collect knowledge. And he contends that, contrary to presumptions that illumination helped create a society controlled by intrusive surveillance, the new radiance often led to greater personal freedom and was integral to the development of modern liberal society. The Victorian Eye’s innovative interdisciplinary approach—and generous illustrations—will captivate a range of readers interested in the history of modern Britain, visual culture, technology, and urbanization.

Author : Susan P. Casteras
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : 0810937662

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye by Susan P. Casteras Pdf

Susan Phelps Gordon, Curator of European Art at the Phoenix Art Museum, relates Ruskin's critical reaction to the art of his time, including the infamous Whistler vs. Ruskin libel trial of 1878 as well as Ruskin's relationships with and aspirations for the artists he supported. Anthony Lacy Gully, Associate Professor of Art History at Arizona State University, explores Ruskin's fascination with the natural world and his clashes with the scientific community. Susan P. Casteras, Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art and a lecturer in art history at Yale College, looks at Ruskin's theories on museums and their installations as he applied them in his Saint George's Museum, which he founded for the education of the miners of Sheffield

Author : Susan P. Casteras,Susan Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810925559

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John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye by Susan P. Casteras,Susan Gordon Pdf

Author : Dean Ruxton
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780717188932

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Death on Ireland's Eye by Dean Ruxton Pdf

A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery – but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the picturesque island. This inquest verdict appeared to conclude the melancholy events that consumed the fishing village of Howth, Co Dublin, in September 1852. But not long afterwards, suspicion fell upon Maria's husband, William Burke Kirwan, as whispers of unspeakable cruelty, an evil character and a secret life rattled through the streets of Dublin. Investigations led to William's arrest and trial for murder. The story swelled into one of the most bitterly divisive chapters in the dark annals of Irish criminal history. Yet questions remain: Does the evidence stand up? What role did the heavy hand of Victorian moral outrage play? Was William really guilty of murder, or did the ever-present 'moral facts' fill in gaps where hard proof was absent? Now, this compelling modern analysis revisits the key evidence, asking sober questions about the facts, half-facts and fantasies buried within the yellowed pages of the Ireland's Eye case files.

Author : P.H Emerson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752407921

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Naturalistic Photography For Students of the Art by P.H Emerson Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Naturalistic Photography For Students of the Art by P.H Emerson

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857898814

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The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Pdf

From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles Dickens The 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting, and new buildings at every turn. Charles Dickens obsessively walked London's streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, Judith Flanders follows in his footsteps, leading us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces, and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London. The Victorian City is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. No one who reads it will view London in the same light again.

Author : Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital. Public Relations Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0959987703

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An Introduction to ... the Royal Victorian-Eye & Ear Hospital by Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital. Public Relations Department Pdf

Author : Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195381375

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The Literate Eye by Rachel Teukolsky Pdf

Rather than focusing on German philosophy or the French avant-gardes, as many books on the history of aesthetics do, Teukolsky takes up British responses to modern art controversies, thus providing a unique view on the development of artistic forms and art history. She considers the canonical writing of authors like John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde alongside texts belonging to the rich field of Victorian print culture--gallery reviews, scientific treatises, satirical cartoons, advertisements, and early photography monographs among them. Spanning the years 1840 to 1910, her argument also adds substance to our understanding of the transition from Victorianism to modernism, a period of especially lively exchange between artists and intellectuals, here narrated with careful attention given to the historical particularities and real events that stamped their imprint on such interactions.

Author : Shane Peacock
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780887769191

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Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock Pdf

Sherlock Holmes, just thirteen, is a misfit. His highborn mother is the daughter of an aristocratic family, his father a poor Jew. Their marriage flouts tradition and makes them social pariahs in the London of the 1860s; and their son, Sherlock, bears the burden of their rebellion. Friendless, bullied at school, he belongs nowhere and has only his wits to help him make his way. But what wits they are! His keen powers of observation are already apparent, though he is still a boy. He loves to amuse himself by constructing histories from the smallest detail for everyone he meets. Partly for fun, he focuses his attention on a sensational murder to see if he can solve it. But his game turns deadly serious when he finds himself the accused — and in London, they hang boys of thirteen. Shane Peacock has created a boy who bears all the seeds of the character who has mesmerized millions: the relentless eye, the sense of justice, and the complex ego. The boy Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating character who is sure to become a fast favorite with young readers everywhere.

Author : Nancy Rose Marshall
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987994

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Victorian Science and Imagery by Nancy Rose Marshall Pdf

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.

Author : Nicholas Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1089015376

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The opulent eye : late victorian and edwardian taste in interior design by Nicholas Cooper Pdf

Author : Marghanita Laski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Spirit possession
ISBN : UCAL:$B106117

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The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski Pdf

Author : Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521551496

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Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology by Sally Shuttleworth Pdf

This innovative and critically acclaimed study successfully challenges the traditional view that Charlotte Brontë existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts ranging from local newspaper copy to the medical tomes in the Reverend Patrick Brontë's library, Sally Shuttleworth explores the interpenetration of economic, social, and psychological discourse in the early and mid-nineteenth century, and traces the ways in which Charlotte Brontë's texts operate in relation to this complex, often contradictory, discursive framework. Shuttleworth offers a detailed analysis of Brontë's fiction, informed by a new understanding of Victorian constructions of sexuality and insanity, and the operations of medical and psychological surveillance.

Author : Peter Francis Donovan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural
ISBN : 0959987754

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An Ornament to the City by Peter Francis Donovan Pdf

Author : Miriam R. Levin,Sophie Forgan,Martina Hessler,Robert H. Kargon,Morris Low
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262265638

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Urban Modernity by Miriam R. Levin,Sophie Forgan,Martina Hessler,Robert H. Kargon,Morris Low Pdf

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums. At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture—an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The authors show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites—businessmen, industrialists, and officials—to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. International expositions, museums, and other such institutions and projects helped stem the economic and social instability fueled by industrialization, projecting the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic connecting urban planning, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented the future city through a series of commissions, agencies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, cultures of science and technology were both rooted in and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic ideals through scientific and technological change; in Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popularization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and Westernization went hand in hand.