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Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : = theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists :/ Srdjan Smajic.
Reminder of title:	theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
remainder title:	Ghost-Seers, Detectives, & Spiritualists
Author:	Smajic, Srdjan,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712012
ISBN:	9780511712012 (ebook)

Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : = theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
Smajic, Srdjan,1974-

Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists :theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /Ghost-Seers, Detectives, & SpiritualistsSrdjan Smajic. - 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;71. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

This book is a 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.

ISBN: 9780511712012 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: PR468.V59 / S63 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.80937

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