Optiques : the science of the eye and the birth of modern French fiction / Andrea Goulet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goulet, Andrea.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Series:

Critical authors & issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Vision in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 272 pages).

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

Introduction: The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds 1

Part I Realism and the Visionary Eye: Balzac's Optics of Narration

1 Second Sight and the Authorial chambre noire: Les Chouans, Louis Lambert 19

2 "Tomber dans le phenomene": Afterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux 33

3 Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin 48

4 "Effets de lumiere," or A "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or 59

Part II Tenebrous Affairs: Romans policiers and the Detecting Eye

5 Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau 85

6 Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision 110

7 Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune 137

Part III Villiers, Verne, and Claretie: Toward a Fin-de-Siecle "Optogrammatology"

8 Death and the Retina: Claire Lenoir, L'Accusateur, and Les Freres Kip 155

9 Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic 176

10 Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse 193

11 The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Afterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future 206

Epilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-259) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Goulet, Andrea. Optiques.

ISBN:

9780812202052

0812202058

OCLC:

859160850

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.