Robert Volpicelli

Bio

Robert Volpicelli is an Associate Professor at Randolph-Macon College. His book, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour (Oxford UP), won the 2022 Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. His articles on modernist literature are forthcoming or have appeared in venues like PMLA, NOVEL, and Twentieth-Century Literature. He is currently working on a book about bad eyesight and modern aesthetics.

Contributions

Monet’s Cataracts, Re-examined

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In the first decade of the twentieth century, Claude Monet’s world began to go dark. The impressionist painter had experienced problems with his eyesight before: as early as 1867, a young Monet found that his penchant for painting outdoors, in full sun, strained his eyes to the point where he worried he would go blind. [1] Now, some forty years later, he was developing cataracts, a clouding of the eye’s lens that can cause blurring and color distortion. Hoping to avoid an operation, in part due...

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