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How the Victorians Saw Things
Laurent, Béatrice
2022
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e-ISSN
2283-6438
Abstract
In the space of three eventful generations, the Victorians witnessed and contributed to profound transformations affecting industry, culture, art and science. Such upheavals required a permanent adaptation of the gaze to understand a changing world. This modified gaze was generated by new points of view, which displaced the observer from his traditional, physical or mental, distant and frontal position. The hegemony of the front-view linear perspective started to crumble in the nineteenth century. Things did not necessarily have to be seen at eye level, from a distance. Objects could now be seen from above, or in close-up, or from inside. These new perspectives affected as much as they were the result of, changing relations between the human subject and the outside world.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Béatrice Laurent, "How the Victorians Saw Things" in: "2022 / 27 Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp
Languages
en
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale
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