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While assisting her father, an estate and antiques dealer, teenaged Misty discovers a journal and pair of glasses that allow her to see ghosts, including those of pirates who founded her New England town and who are seeking a golden statue with mystical powers.

Ghost stories. --- Mystery and detective stories. --- Antiques --- Families --- Pirates --- Eyeglasses --- New England

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This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight. Srdjan Smajić argues that to understand how writers represented ghost-seers and detectives, the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and spiritualists with which these writers engage have to be taken into account: these views raise questions such as whether seeing really is believing, how much of what we 'see' is actually only inferred, and whether there may be other (intuitive or spiritual) ways of seeing that enable us to perceive objects and beings inaccessible to the bodily senses. This book will make a real contribution to the understanding of Victorian science in culture, and of the ways in which literature draws on all kinds of knowledge.

English literature --- Visual perception in literature. --- Vision in literature. --- Ghost stories, English --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- Literature and science. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- English ghost stories --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature