INDEX

Abbott, David, 195

Abu Simbel, Egypt, 118, 119, 120, 12930,
134, 159
Abydos excavations, 160
Academy journal, 95, 107
Agar, Jon, 215
air quality, 616, 109
Alder, Ken, 12, 144, 145, 162
Alexandria, Egypt, 118, 119, 126, 127, 130
Allen, Grant, 234, 94
Amos, Professor (Sir Percy), 151, 255n42
anti-contagionists, 15, 16, 22, 39
anti-vivisectionists, 33, 35, 42, 51
Antoniadi, E. M., 65, 67, 778, 79, 80, 81,
83, 101
The Arabian Nights, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127,
141
Arata, Stephen D., 31, 512
archaeology, 5, 9, 115, 11618, 1213, 135,
140; see also Petrie, Flinders; Egypt;
artefacts
Armstrong, Isobel, 18
artefacts, 1435, 1623
domestication of, 14853
as Gothic things, 15362
resistant to definition, 1458
Asquith, Herbert, 23, 24
astigmatism, 169, see also eyesight
astronomy, 5787
commodification of, 10813
popular, 67, 909, 103, 106, 111; see also
telescopes; Lowell, Percival

Barnard, Edward Emerson, 67, 70, 75, 83,

1534
Barrett, William, 262n42
Bartlett, W. H., 11920, 130
Beer, Gillian, 8
Bell, Charles, 126
Bell, Steve, 234
Benjamin, Walter, 2930
Bennett, John Hughes, 1718, 22, 26
Bennett, Tony, 222
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette and Blondel,
Christine, 214
Bentham, Jeremy, 15
Bentley, Richard, 92
Bergmeister, Oliver, 168
Binet, Alfred, 188, 189
Bird, J. Malcolm, 217
Bixby Letter (1864), 232
Blackwelder, Eliot, 111
blood, 14, 21, 54
Bono, James J., 22930
Boyle, Robert, 85
Bradbury, Kate, 122, 143
Braesher, John, 68
Brewster, David, 173, 174, 1889, 191, 193,
194, 21112, 213
British Association for the Advancement of
Science, 11, 104, 209
British identity, 51, 234
British Institute of Preventive Medicine,
Chelsea, 56, 12, 235, 30, 335,
413, 478, 4950, 51, 55, 56
British Museum, 123, 143, 149, 157, 158
Brooker, Jeremy, 185
Brown, Bill, 1478, 151, 153, 157
Brown, Gordon, 2314

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bacteria, 14, 245, 27, 51

bacteriology, 30, 33, 35, 42, 456, 237n13
Bainbridge, James, 232
Bancroft, Edward, 15

287

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Vision, Science and Literature, 18701920

Bubastis site, Egypt, 121, 126, 1312, 133

Budd, Dr, 16
Budge, E. A. Wallis, 123, 126, 135, 139,
141, 148, 154, 1578, 161
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, A Princess of Mars,
63, 65, 70, 86
Butler, Alfred, 11920
Byron, Lord, 19
Cairo, Egypt, 116, 122, 126, 127, 129
Campbell, W. W., 65, 70
capitalism, 29, 301, 31, 91, 201, 224, 225,
226
Carpenter, William, 13
Carrington, Edith, 42
Carroll, Victoria, 163
Carter, Howard, 143
Castle, Terry, 13, 25, 26
Catholics, 40, 47
Century Magazine, 121, 126, 132, 133
Chapman, George, 102
Chawla, Hector, 232, 233
Chelsea, see British Institute of Preventive
Medicine
cholera, 16, 40
Christ, Carol T., 3
Christianity, 149
Chung Ling Soo (Billy Robinson), 167
Clarke, Alvan, 68
Clerke, Agnes, 99
Cobbe, Frances Power, 48
Coconino Sun, 111
Colles, Morris, 93
Collinson, Joseph, 48
colonialism, 31, 40, 45, 47, 52, 127, 148, 149
commodification, 10813
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 1, 174
History of Spiritualism, 2045
and Houdini, 172, 2024
lecture tours, 216
The Lost World film, 202, 203
Memories and Adventures, 1678
ophthalmology and, 1679
Our American Adventure, 202
Sherlock Holmes stories, 93, 94, 1768,
180, 181
The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 178, 181
A Case of Identity, 175

The Copper Beeches, 192

The Five Orange Pips, 177
The Golden Pince-Nez, 175
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 171
magical performance, 1834
The Man with the Twisted Lip, 175,
176
The Naval Treaty, 181, 183, 1845,
196
The Norwood Builder, 175, 181, 183,
184, 196
The Priory School, 181
The Red-Headed League, 175, 177
The Reigate Puzzle, 1834
A Scandal in Bohemia, 16970, 181
The Second Stain, 181, 183
The Sign of Four, 178, 193
Silver Blaze, 192
The Six Napoleons, 196
The Speckled Band, 1756, 177, 1789
A Study in Scarlet, 171
visual failure of the observer, 192, 193
and spiritualism, 2016, 209, 225,
261n23
Conan Doyle, Jean, 203
Conan Doyle, Louisa, 168
consumer capitalism, 29, 91
consumer culture, 10813
contagionism, 1415, 20, 22, 389, 40, 41,
46, 47
Contagious Diseases Act, 45
Cook, Thomas, 116, 117
Craigen, Jessie, 35
Crane, Frank, 221
Crary, Jonathan, 23, 25, 26, 61, 220, 225,
240n106, 260n1
crime, 367, 171, 1747, 180, 185
Crookes, William, 207, 209, 211, 212
Crossley, Robert, 93
Crowe, Michael J., 59
Cunningham, Richard, 87

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Daily Chronicle, 51
Darwin, Charles, 7
Darwinian evolution, 2, 60
Daston, Lorraine, 12, 130
imagination replaced by objectivity, 7,
26, 104, 122

Index
quotidian objects, 66
on scientific objects, 64, 144
on scientific observation, 81, 122, 147
Daston, Lorraine and Galison, Peter, 18, 60,
67, 69, 70, 74, 76
Daston, Lorraine and Park, Katherine,
1213, 26, 100, 103, 198, 222, 231
Daum, Andreas, 92, 11011, 113
Davenport Brothers, 208, 209
De Bolla, Peter, 76
De La Rue, Warren, 92
De Morgan, Professor, 216
Debord, Guy, 225
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix, 229
Denderah, temple at, 120, 154
detective fiction see Conan Doyle, Arthur
Dialectical Society, 207, 209
Dick, Stephen J., 59
Dick, Thomas, 20
Dircks, Henry, 166
disease, 29
containment of, 38
eye, 1656, 169, 181, 197, 213, 233
identity and, 3556
morality and, 39, 41, 54, 55, 2334
theories, 16, 212, 35, 38, 39, 43
transmission of, 234
vampirism, 435, 53, see also infectious
disease
disenchantment, 29, 110, 2245, 226, 231
Dobler, Herr, 208
dogs, 51, 52
Doige, Robert, 1867
Doyle, Mary, 168
During, Simon, 223, 225

289

Egypt, 16, 11541

artefacts, 14363
fictionalizing, 1237
illustrating, 13341
revivification, 12833
touristic and archaeological observation
of, 11923
empiricism, 134, 156
English Illustrated Magazine, 124
Enlightenment, 7, 9, 26, 156, 211, 214, 222,
223
escapology, 171, 173, 176, 179, 1812, 189,
223
ethnicity, 41, 46, 47
Exodus, 117
extraterrestrial life, 58, 59, 106, 107
eye disease, 1656, 169, 181, 197, 213, 233
eyes, 109, 174, 185
blind spot, 1889
and the body as a whole, 21213
and light, 21112
magicians, 18990
motes in, 193
study of, 1656
and visual authority, 7183
and wonder, 222, see also ophthalmology
eyesight, 61, 726, 84, 86, 169, 1756, 180,
189, 194, 197, 198, 2314

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ectoplasm, 204, 216

Edinburgh Medical Journal, 22
Edison, Thomas, 82
Edwards, Amelia, 116, 118, 1313, 1367,
141, 143
artefacts, 1445, 146, 148
Gothic genre, 1545
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile, 9, 120,
121, 1223, 1256, 1345, 159
EEF (Egypt Exploration Fund), 11618,
125, 128, 131, 135, 143, 145, 151, 153,
162

Fanon, Frantz, 46
Fay, Annie Eva, 216, 217
Fay, Henry, 216
The Field, 51
Flagstaff Observatory, Arizona, 57, 61, 62,
63, 656, 67, 68, 75, 10910, 111
Flammarion, Camille, 92, 211
Flint, Kate, 3, 4
Ford, Arthur Vernon, 167
Foster, R. F., 47
Foucault, Michel, 3, 4, 220
French science, 47, 48, 55
friendly societies, 33
Fuchs, Ernst, 168, 169, 177, 178, 180, 211,
213
Fulford, Tim, Debbie Lee and Peter Kitson,
128
Fyfe, Aileen and Lightman, Bernard, 108,
214, 263n68

290

Vision, Science and Literature, 18701920

geology, 91, 229

germ theory of disease, 16, 212, 38, 43
German science, 47, 48, 51, 55
germs, 17, 18, 234, 42, 43, 45, 556
ghost illusion, see Peppers ghost
Gibson, Matthew, 40
Gibson, Walter B., 173, 186, 192
Gizeh, Egypt, 117, 118, 140, 150, 153
Glasgow, 40
Gloucester Chronicle, 42
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 227
Gooday, Graeme, 11, 36, 43
Gosden, Chris and Marshall, Yvonne, 157
Gosselin, Herbert, 117
Gossin, Pamela, 60, 105
Gothic genre, 5, 12, 18, 301, 389, 40, 61,
120
archaeological artefacts and, 145, 147,
15362
disease and, 1925, 302, 435
grand tours, 118
Grave, Johannes, 158
Green-Lewis, J., 3, 4
Gregory, Sir Richard, 95, 107, 248n41
Griffiths, F. L., 121, 131, 140, 141, 146
Groth, Helen, 194, 195, 263n76
Guardian, 232
Guillemin, Amede, 92, 99, 103, 106, 107,
108

Hetherington, Kevin, 215, 226

Hinsley, C. M., 142
histology, 14, 1718
history of science, 29, 35, 45, 74, 912, 127,
201, 222, 229, 230
Hoare, Reginald Ratcliff, 169
Hoffman, Christoph, 70
Hogg, Jabez, 13, 20, 26, 45, 166, 180, 193,
194, 197, 213
Holmes, Richard, 222
Home, D. D., 212
Homer, The Iliad, 102
Hopkins, Albert, 166
Houdin, Robert, 183, 18990
Houdini, Harry, 1667, 171, 176, 179, 181,
198
on audience as witnesses, 21718
bright light sances, 2067, 217, 225,
2612n27
and Conan Doyle, 172, 2024
Do The Dead Come Back?, 221
exposure of spiritualism, 2027, 212,
21721, 225, 2612n27
Handcuff Secrets, 180, 187
holding of interest, 192
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, 1934
Metamorphosis box trick, 203
Miracle-Mongers and Their Methods, 86
The Psychology of Prestidigitation, 188
The Right Way to Do Wrong, 1767, 180,
1812, 258n29
wonder, 196, 2212, 2234, 2257, 231
Hughes, William, 20, 44
Hutchinson, Jonathan, 165, 180
Huxley, Thomas, 207

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Haggard, H. Rider, She, 145, 147, 1489,
151, 154, 1601, 162
Haight, Sarah, 120, 1589
Halford, Dr Henry, 19
Hankins, Thomas and Silverman, Robert,
105, 222
Hardeen (Theodore Weiss), 202
Hardy, Anne, 29
Hardy, Thomas, 60, 105
Harpers New Monthly Magazine, 15960
Harvard University, 65, 217
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 72, 165, 166,
174, 178, 186, 188, 189, 1912,
21112, 227, 263n57
Henchman, Anna, 60, 105
Henry, William, 11, 20, 46
Herschel, J. F. W., Outlines of Astronomy, 59,
92, 243n4

imagination, 4, 5, 78, 9, 13, 21, 222, 227,

230, 231
Gothic, 156, 15862
objectivity replacing, 7, 26, 104, 123
and observation, 1934
study of infectious disease, 1516, 17
vision and, 1037
wonder and, 2223
immigrants, 37, 40
imperialism, 312, 456, 51, 525
Independent, 232
Independent on Sunday, 233

Index
India, 16
infectious disease, 30, 36, 41, 46
Gothic fiction, 1925, 302, 435
research, 11, 1218, 26, see also disease
innocence, 445, 47, 181
invisibility, 14, 36, 38, 42, 43, 46, 51, 55
Iota correspondence, 209
Ireland, 40, 41
Irish identity, 467, 55
Irons, Mr (Chelsea Vestry member), 234
Islam, 149
Jacobs, Karen, 21920
Jacyna, Stephen, 25
Jaffe, Audrey, 4
James, William, 59
Javelle, Stephane, 75
Jordan, John O., 3
journalism, 24
Juvisy Observatory, 77

291

Lenoir, Timothy, 174

Levine, George, 8, 29
levitation, 205, 206
Lewes, George Henry, 105
Lick Observatory, Los Angeles, 65, 67, 82
Lightman, Bernard, 96, 99, 100, 108, 214,
263n68
Lincoln, Abraham, 232
Lister, Joseph, 24
literature, 18, 356, 913, 99, 183, 22931,
see also under genres and authors
Lockyer, J. Norman, 24, 92
Lockyer, W. J., 76
London Fever Hospital, 15
Lorimer, Norma, 121, 124, 1301, 135, 142,
146, 154
Lovecraft, H. P., 1934
Lowell, Percival, 5761, 125, 245n51
and air quality, 616, 109
and Antoniadi, 65, 67, 778, 79, 80, 81,
83, 101
commodifying vision, 10910, 111
drawing of Martian canals, 78
imagination and vision, 1056
Mars, 89, 1056
trained judgement, 75, 767, 81, 823
Wicks dedication to, 66, 96
wonder and incredulity, 1002, see also
astronomy
Lubbock, Sir John, 24, 25
Luckhurst, Roger, 207

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Karnac, temple at, 146, 147, 148

Kasson, John, 182
Keats, John, On First Looking into Chapmans Homer, 102
Kellar, Harry, 196
Kelly, R. Talbot, 130
Kelvin, Lord, 82
Kendall, May, 11112
Knight, Charles, 174, 258n28
Kohler, Robert E., 36
Krasner, James, 23, 220

laboratory science, 35, 36, 42, 48, 50, 51,

556
Lamert, Samuel, 17, 18, 47
Lampland, Carl, 60
The Lancet, 37
Landolt, Edmund, 1656, 1689, 170, 180,
185, 213
Lane, Edward, 119, 120, 124
Lankester, Edwin Ray, 17, 51, 54
Latour, Bruno, 45, 56, 64, 115, 127, 144,
1612
Laurance, Lionel, 1801, 197
Le Fanu, Sheridan, Carmilla, 18, 1921, 23,
301, 401, 42, 467, 48, 55
Leask, Nigel, 119, 134

McDougall, William, 217, 2234

McGrath, Molly, 201
Macleod, Roy, 45
magic, 1667, 192, 1956, 198
magic lantern, 25, 26, 27, 28
magical performance, 1714, 18290, 198,
2067, 216, 217, 221, 223, 224
magicians, 186, 201, 2023, 2079, 21617,
221; see also Houdini, Harry
Mantell, Gideon, 13
Mantell, Jabez, 20
Markley, Robert, 5960
Marr, Andrew, 233
Mars canal controversy, 5787
Martin, Martha Evans, 90, 106
Marx, Karl, 2930

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Vision, Science and Literature, 18701920

Maskelyne, J. N., 208, 209, 216, 217, 218,

220
Maskelyne, Neville and Devant, David, 179,
183, 1856, 192, 195
Maunder, E. W., 723
Medium (spiritualist journal), 216
mediums, 201, 205, 207, 2089, 21516,
21720, see also spiritualism
Mendelsohn, J. Andrew, 56
Meudon Observatory, Paris, 65, 67, 77
miasmatism, 12, 15, 1920, 24, 40, 41, 42,
54
microscopes, 5, 1132, 166
and disease, 1132
Gothic fiction and, 203
light and, 242n39
observation, 105
phantasmagorias and, 2532
place and identity, 3356
misdirection, 169, 170, 173, 175, 179,
1845, 187, 188, 192, 195, 197, 207,
218
Mitchell, W. J. T., 144, 151
Mitman, G., Murphy, M. and Sellers, C.,
52, 56
modernity, 2, 3, 170, 201, 224, 225, 226,
227, 260n1
Moore, Kevin Z., 3
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, 169, 232
morality, 19, 39, 41, 54, 55, 2334
Morning Post, 217
Mort, Frank, 29, 35, 38, 45
Mortier, Roland, 845
Morus, Iwan, 2145
mummies, 120, 135, 147, 155, 1567, 158,
159, 160, 161, see also artefacts
museums, 4, 163
myth, 20, 23, 467, 55

New York Times, 216

Newcomb, Simon, 67, 73, 75
Nightingale, Florence, 1517, 26, 39, 126,
12930
Noakes, Richard, 201, 209
objective to subjective paradigm, 24, 29
objectivity, 8, 21, 60, 106, 141, 145, 156,
224
archaeological, 1356
expertise and, 23
imagination replaced by, 7, 26, 104, 123
mechanical, 6771, 73, 74, 77
travel writing, 134
OBrien, Fitz-James, 11
observation:
Houdini, 217
limitations, 203
optical illusions, 1909
scientific, 81, 112, 147, 213
sances, 211
Sherlock Holmes, 1769
touristic and archaeological, 11516,
11923, 1412, 146
trained judgement, 75, 767, 81, 823,
see also astronomy; microscopes;
telescopes
OConnor, Ralph, 8, 912, 93, 214, 229,
230
ocular anxiety, 1523, 161, 174, 181, 182,
186, 188, 18991, 199, 218
opera, 159
ophthalmology, 165, 166, 178, 180, 193,
194, 197, 211, 21213, 232, 233
Conan Doyle and, 1679
Oppenheim, Janet, 201
optical illusions, 11, 178, 180, 191, 1949,
201, 213
criminal, 17482
Houdini, 171, 173, 1767, 179, 18690,
198, 2256
Martian canals, 723
observers role in, 1909
Peppers ghost, 166, 185, 194, 195, 208,
215, 263n76
performance of, 18290
Sherlock Holmess fictionalized, 1745,
1826, 196, 198

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national identity, 40, 4556, 234
Nature, 6, 24, 75, 82, 92, 934, 95
Naukratis excavation, 1212, 135
Naval Observatory, Washington DC, 65
Naville, Edouard, 11718, 121, 126, 131,
143, 160
Nelson Radical Club, 34
The New Era, 208
New York Sun, 203

Index
optics, 72, 1659, 173, 174, 221, 225, 226,
227
advances in, 21112
Houdini and, 17980, 188
Otis, Laura, 18, 356, 456
Otter, Chris, 3, 4
Owen, Robert, 216
Palladino, Eusapio, 211
Park, Katherine, 12
Parker, Henry, 39
Pasteur, Louis, 16, 22, 23, 48, 51, 56
Pasteur Institute, Paris, 23
Pepper, John Henry, 166
Peppers ghost, 166, 185, 194, 195, 208, 215,
263n76, see also optical illusions
personal identity and place, 3645
Petrie, (Sir William Matthew) Flinders,
11617, 118, 1215, 127, 130, 135,
253n71
artefacts, 143, 144, 1467, 14950,
1513, 155, 1567
Edwards on, 135
excavation journals, 138, 1401, 146,
149, 150, 151, 156, 253n98
letters attacking Naville, 143
Tanis excavations, 1289, 131
treatment of Egyptian workers, 1312
using imagination to reanimate the past,
15960
Petrie, Hilda, 1234, 125
phantasmagoria, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 23,
2532, 61, 215
photography, 3, 4, 54, 55, 60, 77, 115, 170,
204, 216
Pickering, W. H., 76
Pimlico Radical Club, 34
place:
national identity and, 4556
observational accuracy and, 616
personal identity and, 3645
Plunkett, John, 211
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Masque of Red Death, 389
Murders in the Rue Morgue, 93
police, 179, 181, 187, 193, 198
Polidori, John, The Vampyre, 19
politics, 35, 144, 162, 226, 2334

293

popular science, 90113, 157, 173, 21415,

257n23, 263n68
Pouchet, Flix-Archimde, 16, 21
Pratt, Mary Louise, 45, 140, 148
Price, Lloyd, 51, 52
Proctor, Mary, 92, 107
Proctor, Richard, 92, 99, 104
Protestants, 40, 47
psychology, 59, 209, 224, 226
Punch, 82, 209
Purkinje, J. E., 181
quarantine, 38
Quekett, John, 18
rabies, 51, 52
Rameses II, 1289
rationalization, 104, 125, 156, 194, 2246,
227
Rayleigh, Lord, 82
reader-response theory, 91
Richards, Grant, 93
Rinn, Joseph, 203, 206, 261n27
Roentgen, Professor, 82
Romanticism, 222, 223
Roscoe, Sir Henry, 24
Royal Astronomical Society, London, 92,
109
Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital,
London, 166, 169
Ruffer, Marc Armand, 33
Rupke, Nicholaas, 51
Ryan, Margaret, 167

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Saint, Edward, 204
Sanitarian (periodical), 41
sanitary science movement, 15, 25, 39, 41
Saunders, Sir Edwin, 24
scarlet-fever, 16
Schaffer, Simon, 70, 856
Schiaparelli, Giovanni, 57, 73, 100
Schickore, Jutta, 191, 193, 194, 213
Schiebinger, Londa, 127
science, 134, 1434, 162, 195, 196, 201,
2079, 211, 226, 22931
colonial, 45, 127
imagination and, 12
laboratory, 35, 36, 42, 48, 50, 51, 556

294

Vision, Science and Literature, 18701920

myth and, 46
objective, 26, 29
observation, 81, 112, 147, 213
popular, 89113, 157, 173, 21415,
257n23, 263n68
spectacle, 21415
wonder and, 222, see also history of science
science fiction, 60, 634, 65, 66, 70, 72,
745, 827, 919
Scientific American Committee, 203, 212, 217
scientific instruments, 4, 59, 105, see also
telescopes; microscopes
Scottishness, 234
sances, 4, 201, 202, 203, 2047, 224, 225
investigation of, 20714
spectacle and, 21421, 224
Secord, James, 91, 99
Serviss, Garrett P., Edisons Conquest of Mars,
65, 72, 82
Sexton, George, 2089, 210, 213, 216
sexual transgression, 435
sexuality, 20, 241n38
Shapin, Steven and Schaffer, Simon, Leviathan and the Air-Pump, 856
Sheehan, William, 59
Simmel, Georg, 109
Skloot, Rebecca, 231
sleepwalking, 44
Slipher, V. M., 65
Smaji, Srdjan, 3, 45
small-pox, 16
Smart, C. A., 33
Smith, Andrew, 156
Smith, Joseph, 36, 37
Society for American Magicians, 186, 202
Society for Psychical Research, 207, 209
sociology, 226, 265n121
Southwood Smith, Thomas, 15, 19, 26, 39
spectroscope, 68, 70
spiritualism, 4, 167, 20121, 2247
Spurrell, Flaxman, 159
Stafford, Barbara, 222, 223
Star newspaper, 42
Stephenson, Robert, 216
Stoker, Bram:
Dracula, 18, 19, 203, 30, 312, 435,
525
The Jewel of Seven Stars, 145, 147, 148,
149, 1501, 154, 1601

Stokes, G. G., 24
Stott, Rebecca, 214, 223, 226
Strachey, John St Loe, 945
subjectivity, 24, 9, 26, 67, 70, 85, 106, 130,
131, 141, 156, 166, 197, 227, 230, 231
Sully, James, 173, 199
Sun newspaper, 2312, 234
Sunday Times, 233
supernaturalism, 30, 32, 47, 64, 159, 186
surveillance, 31, 379, 47, 55, 73, 129, 131,
156, 157, 182, 190
tableaux vivants, 845, 86
Tahpanes, mounds of, 124, 149
Tanis excavations, 128, 131
Teale, Oscar, 221
telescopes, 4, 578, 59, 61
authority, 7183
imagination, 105
large apertures versus small apertures,
679
mechanical objectivity, 6771, 73, 74, 77
Petries use for watching workers, 131
popular astronomy, 90
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 60, 234
Thebes, 118, 148
Thomas Cook tours, 116, 117, 118, 120,
123, 135, 148
Thompson, Edward Maunde, 143
Thrift, Nigel, 223
The Times, 232
Tolstoy, Leo, 56
Tomes, Nancy, 22, 35
Tomes, Nancy and Harley, John, 55
Topham, J., 99
tourism, 115, 11618, 11923, 135
trained judgement, 75, 767, 81, 823
travel writing, 9, 367, 123, 126, 128, 129,
130, 1335, 141
artefacts, 1445, 148
authorial egotism, 140
and Gothic narrative, 1535
traveller/tourist distinction, 250n4
Tucker, Jennifer, 60, 94
Turner, Henry S., 22930
Turner, R. Steven, 191, 197
Tyndall, John, 16, 1045, 207, 215

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Index
Uncaged Monkeys stage show, 231
vampirism, 1923, 31, 38, 41, 42, 434, 46,
47, 53
Victoria Institute, 117
vision:
commodification of, 10813
criminal, 17482
evoking wonder, 99103, 106
imagination and, 1037
visual anxiety, see ocular anxiety
visual authority, 4, 36, 42, 58, 62, 74, 108,
211
vivisection, 23, 24, 33, 47, 48, 51
Waddington, Keir, 29
Wallis, John, 2245
Warwick, Alex, 20, 153
Webber, Carl von, Der Freischutz, 159
Weber, Max, 29, 110, 224, 226
Wells, H. G.:
Popularising Science, 934
The Time Machine, 93, 248n26
The War of the Worlds, 9, 58, 59, 82, 93,
99
and commodification, 108
cultivating philosophical element in, 94
distinctions of wonder, 102
location and observational accuracy,
634, 667
and Lowells theories, 93
objectivity, 701
reviews of, 945, 107

295

role of the witness, 745

tableau vivant, 85
trained judgement, 82
vision and imagination, 1067
Westminster News, 30
Wheatstone, Charles, 181
Whitehead, Sir James, 51
Whitman, Walt, 1034
Whitmore, Charles, 23, 24, 30
Wicks, Mark, To Mars Via The Moon, 82, 85,
93, 95, 967, 989
commodifying vision, 108
dedicated to Lowell, 66, 96
objective analysis, 70
professional/amateur distinction, 83
role of the witness, 74
vision and imagination, 107
wonder as a product of observation,
1023
Wise, M. Norton, 2223
witness(es):
audience as, 21718
autoptic, 134, 135
role of the, 58, 59, 71, 745, 857
sance testimony, 215
wonder, 99103, 106, 1956, 198, 2217,
230, 231
Worboys, Michael, 55
Wordsworth, William, Star-gazers, 90

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Yanni, Carla, 4
Zimmerman, Virginia, 128