Bewilderments of Vision Hallucination and Literature, 1880-1914

Focusing on a series of neologisms from writing of the period, such as 'handconscience', 'figmentary' & 'aftersense', & moving between a number of disciplines including literature, criticism, science, psychoanalysis & linguistics, this text endeavours to answer a number of questions, ranging from the urgent to the downright bizarre.