Introduction : Modernism and the body as afterimage
The eye's mind : self-detection in James's The sacred fount and Nabokov's The eye
Two mirrors facing : Freud, Blanchot, and the logic of invisibility
From "Spyglass" to "Horizon" : tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale Hurston
One-eyed jacks and three-eyed monsters : visualizing embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
Spectacles of violence, stages of art : Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's dialectic
Modernist seductions : materializing mass culture in Nathanael West's The day of the locust
Postscript : From "Our glass lake" : photo/graphic memory in Nabokov's Lolita.
