Contents

List of Illustrations     ix

Acknowledgments     xi

Introduction: Through Bright Glass     1

1.Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels     19

2.Mediated Involvement: John Stuart Mill’s Partial Sociability     48

3.Visual Interlude I / Double Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Objectivity and Its Pitfalls     74

4.Virtual Provinces, Actually     102

5.Experiments in Semi-Detachment     122

6.Visual Interlude II / “This New-Old Industry”:
William Morris’s Kelmscott Press     153

7.H. G. Wells, Realist of the Fantastic     175

8.Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather’s
Layers     196

9.Visual Interlude III / The Great Stone Face: Buster
Keaton, Semi-Detached     215

Conclusion: Apparitional Criticism     238

Notes     245

Bibliography     293

Index     315