Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Ocular Horizons: Vision, Science and Literature
1. Microscopy and Disease: Science, Imagination and the Phantasmagoria
2. Microscopy and Disease: Place and Identity in Laboratory Science and Fiction
3. Optical Shattering: Percival Lowell, Mars and Authorities of Vision
4. Lowell's Minimum Visible: Wonder, Imagination and Popular Science
5. Looking as Tourists and Scientists: Amelia Edwards, Flinders Petrie and the Archaeology of the Egypt Exploration Fund
6. Egyptian Archaeology and Fiction: The Artefact as Thing
7. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Optics, Ophthalmology and Magical Performance
8. Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini: Sensation, Spectacle and Spiritualism
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index