Ghost Seers Detectives and Spiritualists Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science 1st Edition by Srdjan Smajic ISBN 978-0521191883 0521191882

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ISBN 10: 0521191882

ISBN 13:  978-0521191883

Author:  Srdjan Smajic

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.

Table of contents: 

PART I – Outer Vision, Inner Vision: Ghost-Seeing and Ghost Stories

Contextualizing the Ghost Story

The Rise of Optical Apparitions

Inner Vision and Spiritual Optics

“Betwixt Ancient Faith and Modern Incredulity”

PART II – Seeing Is Reading: Vision, Language, and Detective Fiction

Visual Learning: Sight and Victorian Epistemology

Scopophilia and Scopophobia: Poe’s Readerly Flâneur

Stains, Smears, and Visual Language in The Moonstone

Semiotics v. Encyclopedism: The Case of Sherlock Holmes

PART III – Into the Invisible: Science, Spiritualism, and Occult Detection

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

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