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Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science

Seeing is believing: in broad terms, the complexities of this axiom form the overarching theme of Srdjan Smajić’s Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science, a study that examines the correlations and disparities between vision and knowing in the nineteenth century. In thirteen concise chapters organised into three sections, Smajić investigates […]