Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject 9780271065014, 027106501X

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must st

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Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject
9780271065014, 027106501X

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must st

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This is the first book to provide a full and coherent introduction to the photography of Victorian Scotland. There are m

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This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens.

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Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies

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Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society, originally published in 1994, has become an indispensable reference work fo

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The shock of the modern has given way to global and transnational shifts and cultural displacements. What ethical demand

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