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theories of vision in Victorian literature and science
By Srdjan Smajic
"Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 - New York, it has 262 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists
- Author: Srdjan Smajic
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 262
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: 2010
- Publish Location: New York
“Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Visual perception in literature - English Detective and mystery stories - English literature - History and criticism - English Ghost stories - Literature and science - Vision in literature - History
- Places: Great Britain
- Time: 19th century - Victoria, 1837-1901
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xi, 262 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24383193M - OL15413128W
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2010002265
- ISBN-13: 9780521191883
- All ISBNs: 9780521191883
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"Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Machine generated contents note: 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.
"Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists" Description:
The Open Library:
"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 argues that to understand how writers represented ghost-seers and detectives, the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and spiritualists with which these writers engage have to be taken into account: these views raise questions such as whether seeing really is believing, how much of what we 'see' is actually only inferred, and whether there may be other (intuitive or spiritual) ways of seeing that enable us to perceive objects and beings inaccessible to the bodily senses. This book will make a real contribution to the understanding of Victorian science in culture, and of the ways in which literature draws on all kinds of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
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