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Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
"This is an original study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight. Srdjan Smajić...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
71. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contextualizing the ghost story
- The rise of optical apparitions
- Inner vision and spiritual optics
- 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity'
- Visual learning : sight and Victorian epistemology
- Scopophilia and scopophobia : Poe's readerly flâneur
- Stains, smears, and visual language in The moonstone
- Semiotics vs. encyclopedism : the case of Sherlock Holmes
- Detective fiction's uncanny
- Light, ether, and the invisible world
- Inner vision and occult detection : Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius
- Other dimensions, other worlds
- Psychic sleuths and soul doctors.