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100 1 $aGoulet, Andrea.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005094278
245 10 $aOptiques :$bthe science of the eye and the birth of modern French fiction /$cAndrea Goulet.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $aviii, 272 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCritical authors & issues
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : the epistemology of optics : seeing subjects, modern minds -- $gPt. I.$tRealism and the visionary eye : Balzac's optics of narration -- $g1.$tSecond sight and the authorial chambre noire : Les Chouans, Louise Lambert -- $g2.$t"Tomber dans le phenomene" : afterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux -- $g3.$tAlerntative optics : Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin -- $g4.$t"Effets de lumiere," or a "second" second sight : La Fille aux yeux d'or -- $gPt. II.$tTenebrous affairs : Romans policiers and the detecting eye -- $g5.$tCuvier, Helmholz, and the visual logics of deduction : Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau -- $g6.$tLearning to see : Monsieur Lecoq and empiricist theories of vision -- $g7.$tSealed chambers and open eyes : Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune -- $gPt. III.$tVilliers, Verne, and Claretie : toward a fin-de-siecle "optogrammatology" -- $g8.$tDeath and the retina : Claire Lenoir, L'Accusateur, and Les Freres Kip -- $g9.$tOptogram fiction : communication, doubt, and the fantastic -- $g10.$tTropical piercings : nationalism, atavism, and the eye of the corpse -- $g11.$tThe fin-de-siecle logic of the afterimage : hysteria, hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future -- $tEpilogue : the afterimage of reference : optics and the nouveau roman.
520 1 $a"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and literature of the fantastic from 1830 to 1910 reflected competition between two modern visual modes: a not-yet-outdated idealism and an empiricism that located truth in the body. More specifically, the book argues that key narrative forms of the nineteenth century were shaped by a set of scientific debates: between idealism and materialism in Honore Balzac's Comedie humaine, between deduction and induction in the early French detective fiction, and between objective vision and subjective vision in the "optogram" fictions of Jules Verne and others." "Goulet aims to revise critical views on the modern novel in a number of ways. For instance, 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." "With its chronological and interdisciplinary scope, Optiques stands to contribute an important chapter to the study of literary modernity in its scientific context."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFrench fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103562
650 0 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103563
650 0 $aVision in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008904
830 0 $aCritical authors & issues.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96110032
852 00 $bglx$hPQ653$i.G68 2006