Srdjan Smaji

Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists

Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how nineteenth-century ghost and detective fiction writers engage with contemporary theories of vision.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781107634589
• ISBN-10: 110763458X
• Artikelnr.: 40048687

Autorenporträt

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.