This book examines how nineteenth-century ghost and detective fiction writers engage with contemporary theories of vision.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Srdjan Smaji¿ is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Furman.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Outer Vision, Inner Vision: Ghost-Seeing and Ghost Stories: 1. Contextualizing the ghost story 2. The rise of optical apparitions 3. Inner vision and spiritual optics 4. 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity' Part II. Seeing is Reading: Vision, Language, and Detective Fiction: 5. Visual learning: sight and Victorian epistemology 6. Scopophilia and scopophobia: Poe's readerly flâneur 7. Stains, smears, and visual language in The Moonstone 8. Semiotics vs. encyclopedism: the case of Sherlock Holmes Part III. Into the Invisible: Science, Spiritualism, and Occult Detection: 9. Detective fiction's uncanny 10. Light, ether, and the invisible world 11. Inner vision and occult detection: Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius 12. Other dimensions, other worlds 13. Psychic sleuths and soul doctors Coda.
Introduction Part I. Outer Vision, Inner Vision: Ghost-Seeing and Ghost Stories: 1. Contextualizing the ghost story 2. The rise of optical apparitions 3. Inner vision and spiritual optics 4. 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity' Part II. Seeing is Reading: Vision, Language, and Detective Fiction: 5. Visual learning: sight and Victorian epistemology 6. Scopophilia and scopophobia: Poe's readerly flâneur 7. Stains, smears, and visual language in The Moonstone 8. Semiotics vs. encyclopedism: the case of Sherlock Holmes Part III. Into the Invisible: Science, Spiritualism, and Occult Detection: 9. Detective fiction's uncanny 10. Light, ether, and the invisible world 11. Inner vision and occult detection: Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius 12. Other dimensions, other worlds 13. Psychic sleuths and soul doctors Coda.
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