Otter: The Victorian Eye

Otter, Chris: The Victorian Eye. A political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910, Chicago 2008.

This is a great book with many facets to it that got me thinking. It is first of all a history of vision, which is interesting as it touches on bodily aspects as well as technological ones. Then it is also an assertion of liberalism and a rejection of applying Foucaultian Panopticism to all and everything.