Optiques : : The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction /

Optiques : : The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction / / Andrea Goulet.

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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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Goulet, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2006
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Critical Authors and Issues
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds
  • Part I. Realism and the Visionary Eye: Balzac's Optics of Narration
  • 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
  • Part II. Tenebrous Mfairs: Romans policiers and the Detecting Eye
  • 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
  • Part III. Villiers, Verne, and Claretie: Toward a Fin-de-Siecle "Optogrammatology"
  • 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

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