Optiques The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction Andrea Goulet "Clever, learned, original, and energizing, this study pioneers an enticing new method of reading the modern novel. . . . Essential."--Choice 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...
Optiques The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction Andrea Goulet "Clever, learned, original, and energizing, this study pioneers a...
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today. She argues that the history of spatial sciences--geology, paleontology, cartography--helps elucidate the genre's fundamental tensions: between brutal murder and pure reason; historical past and reconstructive present; national identity and global networks.
As the sciences underlying her analysis make extensive use of strata and grids, Goulet...
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, spa...
