Optiques : the science of the eye and the birth of modern French fiction /
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from 1830...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds
- Chapter 1. Second Sight and the Authorial chambre noire: Les Chouans, Louis Lambert
- Chapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux
- Chapter 3. Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin
- Chapter 4. "Effets de lumiere," or a "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or
- Chapter 5. Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau
- Chapter 6. Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision
- Chapter 7. Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune
- Chapter 8. Death and the Retina: Claire Lenoir, L 'Accusateur, and Les Freres Kip
- Chapter 9. Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic
- Chapter 10. Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse
- Chapter 11. The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Mterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future
- Epilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.