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(University of New Mexico)
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  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-13: 9798881804824
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 296 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 230x160x28 mm, kaal: 543 g, 26 bw photos
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026
  • Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Academic
  • ISBN-13: 9798881804824
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A fun and informative cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology, and more.

Eyeglasses have become so commonplace we hardly think about them-unless we can't find them. They are just there, immediately at hand for those who wear them. Yet glasses have been controversial throughout history. Oxford scholar Roger Bacon pioneered the science of using lenses to see and then spent a decade in a miserable medieval prison cell for his hubris, for advocating that he could “fix” God's creations by improving our eyesight. Even today, people take off their glasses before having their picture taken because they have been taught through generations that wearing glasses is somehow unattractive, despite how necessary they are to most of our daily lives.

A Four-Eyed World: How We See and Are Seen with Glasses is the first book to investigate the experience of wearing glasses and contacts and their role in culture. It's also a searing story of what might happen if someone who needed them to cross the street decided to put them aside for a scary week. David King Dunaway encourages readers to take a look at how they literally see the world through what they wear by exploring everything from the history of deficient eyesight and how glasses are made to portrayals of those who wear glasses in media, the stigma surrounding them, and the future of augmented and virtual reality glasses. He illustrates how glasses have shaped, and continue to shape, who we are and who we are becoming. Interwoven with this exploration is Dunaway's own experience of spending a week without his glasses, which he has used since childhood, to see the world around him and his newfound appreciation for his visual aids.

A Four-Eyed World is the story of how we see the world and how our ability to see things has evolved, ultimately asking: How have two cloudy, quarter-sized discs of crystal or glass riveted together become so essential to human existence? Shakespeare famously said eyes are windows to the soul, but what about people who see only by covering theirs with glasses? Readers will find out together through this fascinating and insightful cultural history of one of humanity's greatest inventions.



A fun and informative cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology, and more.

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A fun, quick read on vision and fashion. * Shepherd Express * A Four-Eyed World takes readers on a witty, eye-opening journey through the history of eyewear. * Optical Prism * A thoroughly delightful, information-packed look into living with lenses. * Kirkus Reviews * Dunaway gives us a revealing new lens through which to look at our history, our culture, each other and even ourselves. -- Barbara Freese, author of Coal: A Human History Enlightening and amusing, A Four-Eyed World blends history, philosophy, literature, poetry, and the authors personal experience to analyze the eyeglasses that help us see straight. David King Dunaway reveals that theres a lot more to those glasses than those of us who wear them might have imagined. -- Donald A. Ritchie, US Senate Historian Emeritus Dunaway scribes a wide-ranging investigation of how spectacles and other vision aids have shaped individual identity, social norms, art, science and industry, and examines how the next generation of smart eyewear may once again transform what it means to see ... A Four-Eyed World can serve as both mirror and a roadmap. It walks us through the history of an item many of us use every single day without thinking. * Vision Monday * A central element of Dunaway's book is the eye-opening cultural history of eyeglasses ... Dunaway delightfully rolls in storytelling and personal ocular history ... [ An] important, comprehensive work. * Albuquerque Journal * I have worn glasses for nearly 20 years, and I never thought about the history or the personal sacrifices that were made for those of us with a need for clearer vision to actually see more clearly. David King Dunaway weaves a well-researched and intriguing book about the origin of glasses and the people who recognized that humans had a part in charting their course, and he does it with a beautiful and practiced story-telling flair. Dunaways personal relationship with his own lenses helps us all to see that these indispensable necessities deserve their rightful place alongside the things that define each of us. A Four-Eyed World will leave you proud, if not appreciative to be counted among the billions of glassers whose lives have been enriched as a result of their second set of eyes. -- Deb Haaland, former Congresswoman, NM and former US Secretary of the Interior

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An engaging and informative cultural history of glasses that explores their origins, stigmas, future in technology, and more.
Preface: Glassers
Introduction: The Struggle for Sight
Sunday
Chapter One: The Beginning of Assisted Vision
Monday
Chapter Two: Living with Lenses
Tuesday
Chapter Three: The Glasses Stigma
Wednesday
Chapter Four: Fashions in Glasses
Thursday
Chapter Five: Glasses Turn Literary
Friday
Chapter Six: Glasses go Hollywood
Saturday
Chapter Seven: What People Think About Glasses and Their Wearers
Sunday
Chapter Eight: What People Say About Their Own Glasses
Monday
Chapter Nine: Glasses Today
Chapter Ten: Glasses Tomorrow: Smartglasses
Epilogue: Three Years Later
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
About the Author
David King Dunaway is professor of English at the Universities of New Mexico and Sao Paulo, Brazil and the author or editor of 10 historical and biographical books, including How Can I Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger, Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, and Huxley in Hollywood. Hes also coauthor of Writing the Southwest, and author of the anthology, Route 66 Companion. His books have been translated and serialized internationally, and his essays published in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His book tours have included appearances on PBS, CNBC, and CSPANs Book TV, as well as dozens of regional and local stations. He resides in Los Ranchos, New Mexico.