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Legacies of the Rue Morgue : science, space, and crime fiction in France / Andrea Goulet.
LIBRA PQ637.D4 G68 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goulet, Andrea, author.
- Series:
- Critical authors & issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Influence.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
- Detective and mystery stories, French--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, French.
- French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- French fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Science in literature.
- Space and time in literature.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- 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and literature of the fantastic from 1830 to 1910 reflected competition between two modern visual modes: a not-yet-outdated idealism and an empiricism that located truth in the body. Although many literary studies focus on the impact of cinema, photography, and painting, Optiques asserts the materialist bases of realism by establishing a genealogy of popular fictional genres as fundamentally optical, that is, as articulated according to bodily notions of sight. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prologue : Poe 1
- Introduction : Mapping murder
- Archaeologies. Quarries and catacombs : underground crime in Second Empire Romans-feuilletons
- Skulls and bones : paleohistory in Leroux and Leblanc
- Crypts and ghosts : terrains of national trauma in Japrisot and Vargas
- Intersections. Street-name mysteries and private/public violence, 1867-2001
- Cartographies. Terrains vagues : Gaboriau and the birth of the cartographic mystery
- Mapping the city : Malet's mysteries and Butor's Bleston
- Zéropa-land : Balkanization and the schizocartographies of Dantec and Radoman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812247794
- 0812247795
- OCLC:
- 912045397
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