Helen Groth Domestic Phantasmagoria : The Victorian Literary Domestic and Experimental
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Illusion is a source of trauma in the opening sections of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. One encounter with a domestic magic lantern sends Martineau into a state of high anxiety. In its dismantled state, the lantern holds no mysteries for her. She recalls seeing it cleaned by daylight, handling all its parts, and “understanding its whole structure.” It was a different story at night, in a darkened room, when “my panics were really unaccountable. They were a matter of pure sensation without any intellectual justification whatever, even of the wildest kind. . . . such was my terror of the white circle on the wall, and of the moving slides.”1 Familiar apparitions flickering on a wall trigger an irrational affective response that reinforces Martineau’s alienation from her domestic environs. A possible explanation for this reaction lies a few pages earlier in a dream sequence: “Sometimes the dim light of the windows in the night seemed to advance till it pressed upon my eyeballs, and then the windows would seem to recede to an infinite distance. If I laid my hand under my head on the pillow, the hand seemed to vanish almost to a point, while the head grew as big as a mountain.”2 Martineau’s vivid dreaming takes on a phantasma-
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تاریخ انتشار 2008