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Chapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds 1
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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 19
- Chapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux 33
- Chapter 3. Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin 48
- Chapter 4. "Effets de lumiere," or a "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or 59
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Part II. Tenebrous Mfairs: Romans policiers and the Detecting Eye
- Chapter 5. Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau 85
- Chapter 6. Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision 110
- Chapter 7. Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune 137
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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 155
- Chapter 9. Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic 176
- Chapter 10. Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse 193
- Chapter 11. The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Mterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future 206
- Epilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman 222
- Notes 227
- Index 261
- Acknowledgments 271
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds 1
-
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 19
- Chapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux 33
- Chapter 3. Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin 48
- Chapter 4. "Effets de lumiere," or a "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or 59
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Part II. Tenebrous Mfairs: Romans policiers and the Detecting Eye
- Chapter 5. Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau 85
- Chapter 6. Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision 110
- Chapter 7. Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune 137
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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 155
- Chapter 9. Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic 176
- Chapter 10. Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse 193
- Chapter 11. The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Mterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future 206
- Epilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman 222
- Notes 227
- Index 261
- Acknowledgments 271