LEADER 04861nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463228603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0205-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202052 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418245 035 $a(OCoLC)859160850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11671584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11030689 035 $a(PQKB)11149052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442128 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26847 035 $a(DE-B1597)449063 035 $a(OCoLC)979744236 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202052 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442128 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748517 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682343 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418245 100 $a20051223d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOptiques$b[electronic resource] $ethe science of the eye and the birth of modern French fiction /$fAndrea Goulet 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aCritical authors & issues 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51061-X 311 $a0-8122-3931-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction. The Epistemology of Optics: Seeing Subjects, Modern Minds -- $tPart I. Realism and the Visionary Eye: Balzac's Optics of Narration -- $tChapter 1. Second Sight and the Authorial chambre noire: Les Chouans, Louis Lambert -- $tChapter 2. "Tom her dans le phenomene ": Mterimages in La Maison Nucingen and Le Bal de Sceaux -- $tChapter 3. Alternative Optics: Seraphita, La Recherche de l'absolu, and La Peau de chagrin -- $tChapter 4. "Effets de lumiere," or a "Second" Second Sight: La Fille aux yeux d'or -- $tPart II. Tenebrous Mfairs: Romans policiers and the Detecting Eye -- $tChapter 5. Cuvier, Helmholtz, and the Visual Logics of Deduction: Poe, Doyle, Gaboriau -- $tChapter 6. Learning to See: Monsieur Lecoq and Empiricist Theories of Vision -- $tChapter 7. Sealed Chambers and Open Eyes: Leroux's Mystere de la chambre jaune -- $tPart III. Villiers, Verne, and Claretie: Toward a Fin-de-Siecle "Optogrammatology" -- $tChapter 8. Death and the Retina: Claire Lenoir, L 'Accusateur, and Les Freres Kip -- $tChapter 9. Optogram Fiction: Communication, Doubt, and the Fantastic -- $tChapter 10. Tropical Piercings: Nationalism, Atavism, and the Eye of the Corpse -- $tChapter 11. The Fin-de-Siecle Logic of the Mterimage: Hysteria, Hallucination, and Villiers's L'Eve future -- $tEpilogue. The Afterimage of Reference: Optics and the nouveau roman -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAndrea 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 Honoré Balzac's Comédie humaine, between deduction and induction in 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. 606 $aFrench fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aVision in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aVision in literature. 676 $a840.9/3561 700 $aGoulet$b Andrea$01040067 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463228603321 996 $aOptiques$92489058 997 $aUNINA