Kate Flint
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
Cambridge University Press, 2000

In this book, Professor Kate Flint presents an interdisciplinary study that explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. She draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling as well as pre-Raphaelite and realist painters including Millais, Burne-Jones, William Powell Frith and Whistler, and a host of Victorian scientists, cultural commentators and art critics. Topics discussed include blindness, memory, hallucination, dust, and the importance of the horizon--a dazzling array of subjects linked together by the operations of the eye and brain.