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In this final chapter, Thompson shows how science fiction’s fascination with invisibility tells us more about blindness than it does about vision. Taking Maurice Renard as her main example, Thompson provides detailed readings of The Blue Peril and The Doctored Man which show that rather than reinforcing the supremacy of vision in the hierarchy of the senses, narratives which present us with different ways of seeing can in fact be read as celebrations of the powers and possibilities of blindness.
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Thompson, H. (2017). Science, Fantasy and (In)Visible Blindness. In: Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013. Literary Disability Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43511-8_8
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