Acknowledgements; A Note on Translations; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; (Re)Viewing Blindness; The Language of Blindness; Overview; Chapter 2 The French Metanarrative of Blindness; Blindness as Emasculation; Blindness and Femininity; Representing Typhlophobia: Trickery, Pity and (Self)-Loathing; The Blind Sensorium; Blindness as Metaphor: La Symphonie Pastorale; Chapter 3 The Creative "Look" of the Blind "Seer"; Balzac's Blind Narrator-Surrogates; Hugo's Blind Starer; Husson's Blind Regard; Monnier's Possibly Blind Narrator; Villet's Proudly Blind Narrator

Chapter 4 Non-visual Language and Descriptive BlindnessDescriptive Confusion; The Function of the Blind Character; Writing Blindness: Les Emmurés; Chapter 5 Male Desire and the Paradox of Blind Sexuality; (Non-)Visual Pleasure; The Erotics of Enucleation; Non-Visual Pornography; The Poetics of Blind Sensuality; Chapter 6 Silenced Sexualities: Listening to the Voice of the Blind Woman; The Male Mediation of the Blind Woman; Reflections; Alice; Chapter 7 Blind Assassins; The Roman Noir: An Ocularcentric Text; The Blind Man; The Blind Woman; The Blind Assassin; Conclusion

Chapter 8 Science, Fantasy and (In)Visible BlindnessChapter 9 Conclusion; Works Cited; Index