Bewilderments of Vision: Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914

by Oliver Tearle

Book Overview

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. Or perhaps that should be misreading: for, as this experimental work of criticism negotiates its way among the works of a number of late-nineteenth-century writers, particularly Robert Louis Stevenson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845196775
• ISBN13: 9781845196776
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"