The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America by Peter John Brownlee

The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America

Early American Studies

Peter John Brownlee

264 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual...

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