Phantasmatic Knowledge : Visions of the Human and the Scientific Gaze in English Literature, 1880-1930.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: on Reading Faces; I. Borders of the Human: Making a Case; Epistemological Prologue I: Case Studies; 1 Normalisation and Monstrosity: the 'Elephant Man'; 2 Cultural Pathologies: the "Making of ..." Jack the Ripper; 3 Cases and Experiments: Jekyll and Hyde; II. Victorian Visualities: Being (in) the Picture; Epistemological Prologue II: Photographic Optimism; 4 Family Likeness, Heredity and Visuality: R.L. Stevenson's "Olalla"; 5 Seriality and the Artist's Gaze: Thomas Hardy's ""The Well-Beloved""

6 Ancient Wisdom versus Modern Knowledge: the Return of the MummiesEpilogue: Literary Knowledge; Bibliography; Picture Credits; Register.

Hauptbeschreibung 'Phantasmatic Knowledge' investigates changing anthropological visions as they were negotiated in late Victorian and early twentieth century literature. It starts from the assumption that in nineteenth century scientific discourse, a human being can only be accepted as fully human if it is visually perceived as human. One of the scientific genres to 'produce' and normalize man in the late nineteenth century is the case study, so the first part of the book analyses three notorious 'cases' of late Victorian London, Joseph Merrick, the so-called ""Elephant Man"", Jack the Ripper.

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