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Author : Natalie Prizel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Victorian Ethical Optics written by Natalie Prizel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Ethical Optics asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period answer the ethical question of how one should live with others by turning to a more specific one: how should one look at others? Looking would seem to necessarily lead to interpretation and judgment, but this book shows how Victorian artists and authors imagined other ethical and optical relations. In an era in which aberrant, deformed, and disabled bodies proliferated—particularly those bodies ravaged by industrial labor and poverty—the ideological and economic stakes of looking at such bodies peaked; moreover, as work became a gospel and the question of deservingness became central, looking at aberrant bodies was always a matter of ethics and politics. The aesthetic thinking of John Ruskin animates the visual ethics at the center of this book, as he advocates for "innocence of the eye," which calls for a return to infantile sight of a kind that precedes judgment or classification. Although Ruskin understands such innocence to be an asymptote, optical innocence remains an ethical demand, and it is to this demand that this book attends. Among the authors and artists included are Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Henry Mayhew, Ford Madox Brown, John Everett Millais, and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Encounters between normative and aberrant characters or figures within a text or visual object shape the encounter that the external reader or viewer has with those same aberrant bodies. The category of the aberrant draws on ideas from queer and disability studies but makes a case for a broader understanding of strange bodies; in this book, aberrant bodies are those whose visible forms lead to a breakdown in cognition, a breakdown that makes space for the innocent eye to move. In thinking about such bodies, this book introduces the term extranormative to explain the complex and often complicit relationship these figures exemplify in relation to a (surprisingly expansive) Victorian norm. Thinking in terms of extranormativity as an essential feature of Victorian life disrupts tired notions of the period as one in which a narrow definition of bourgeois normativity took hold.
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Author : Natalie Prizel
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-16
Victorian Ethical Optics written by Natalie Prizel and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-16 with Art categories.
Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the bodies of others, particularly those bodies which were aberrant, deformed, and disabled.
Optics Ethics And Art In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries
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Author : Herbert L. Kessler
language : en
Publisher: PIMS
Release Date : 2018
Optics Ethics And Art In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries written by Herbert L. Kessler and has been published by PIMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Art categories.
"This volume examines afresh the various ways in which the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed thirteenth-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with theological speculation, and the effect these new developments had on those who learned about them through preaching. At the core of this collection lies Peter of Limoges's 'Tractatus moralis de oculo', a compilation remarkable for subsuming science into the edifice of theology and glossing the physiology of the eye and theories of perception in terms of Christian ethics and moralization, making esoteric learning accessible to the public (including artists) through preaching. Transgressing traditional boundaries between art history, science, literature, and the history of religion, the nine essays in this volume complicate the generally accepted understanding of the impact science had on thirteenth-century visual culture."--
Sidgwick S Ethics And Victorian Moral Philosophy
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Author : Jerome B. Schneewind
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Sidgwick S Ethics And Victorian Moral Philosophy written by Jerome B. Schneewind and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Electronic books categories.
A Companion To The Victorian Novel
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Author : William Baker
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2002-01-30
A Companion To The Victorian Novel written by William Baker and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference book is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers a fresh account of past, current, and new directions in scholarship. The volume is divided into several broad sections, with chapters in each section treating more specialized topics. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on the growth of serialization and the development of the novel of syndication. The second explores significant social and cultural facets of nineteenth-century British literature, while the third discusses the principal features of different genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, detective fiction, the social problem novel, and contemporary film adaptations. Individual authors are examined in the fourth section, while the fifth overviews various critical approaches and their application to nineteenth-century fiction.
Victorian Technology
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Author : Herbert Sussman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-07-23
Victorian Technology written by Herbert Sussman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the position of the world's first industrialized nation. It was an astonishing transformation, one that shaped—and was shaped by—the values of the Victorian era, and that laid the groundwork for the consumer-based society in which we currently live. Filled with vivid details and fascinating insights into the impact of the Industrial Revolution on peoples' lives, Victorian Technology locates the forerunners of the defining technologies of the our time in 19th-century England: the computer, the Internet, mass transit, and mass communication. Readers will encounter the innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs behind history-making breakthroughs in communications (the transatlantic cable, wireless communication), mass production (the integrated factory), transportation (railroads, gliders, automobiles), and more.
Routledge Revivals Victorian Culture And The Idea Of The Grotesque 1999
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Author : Colin Trodd
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Routledge Revivals Victorian Culture And The Idea Of The Grotesque 1999 written by Colin Trodd and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between ‘style’ and ‘concept’. The book provides an original analysis of key articulations of the Grotesque in the literary culture of Ruskin, Browning and Dickens, where represents the eruptions, intensities, confusions and disturbed vitality of modern cultural experience such as the scientific revolution associated with Darwin and the nature of industrial society.
Victorian Ethics
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Author : Nathan Uglow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Victorian Ethics written by Nathan Uglow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Ethics categories.
Calendar Of Victoria University In Federation With The University Of Toronto
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Calendar Of Victoria University In Federation With The University Of Toronto written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.
The Naked Heart The Bourgeois Experience Victoria To Freud
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Author : Peter Gay
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1996-10-17
The Naked Heart The Bourgeois Experience Victoria To Freud written by Peter Gay and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-17 with History categories.
In The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward. At the very time that industrialists, inventors, statesmen, and natural scientists were conquering new objective worlds, Gay writes, "the secret life of the self had grown into a favorite and wholly serious indoor sport." Following the middle class's preoccupation with inwardness through its varied cultural expressions (such as fiction, art, history, and autobiography), Gay turns also to the letters and confessional diaries of both obscure and prominent men and women. These revealing documents help to round out a sparkling portrait of an age.