TY - BOOK ID - 73922041 TI - Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists PY - 2010 SN - 9780521191883 9780511712012 9781107634589 9780511712739 0511712731 9780511714818 0511714815 0521191882 110763458X 1107204240 9781107204249 1283149583 9781283149587 0511713568 9780511713569 9786613149589 6613149586 0511716060 9780511716065 0511712014 0511722877 9780511722875 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Visual perception in literature. KW - Vision in literature. KW - Ghost stories, English KW - Detective and mystery stories, English KW - Literature and science. KW - Poetry and science KW - Science and literature KW - Science and poetry KW - Science and the humanities KW - English ghost stories KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73922041 AB - 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. ER -