![]() I delineate key points in which Bulwer uses the narrator's perspective for explicitly ironic purposes, calling attention to when the narrator's sensory information does not mesh with the conclusions Bulwer expects the reader to draw. I use a method I term "spectral phenomenology," derived from Jane Bennett's phenomenology of enchantment and Lisa Blackman's articulation of mental touch, to call attention to narrative phenomena that would be imperceptible without an occult lens. Abstract: I examine Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton's attempts to synthesize scientific skepticism and idealism through his supernatural novel A Strange Story (1861).
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