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Rontgen's Ghosts: Photography, X-Rays, and the Victorian Imagination
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 1997
- pp. 141-173
- 10.1353/lm.1997.0016
- Article
- Additional Information
Grove examines the way in which Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen's 1895 discovery of X-rays confirmed many pre-existing ideas about the existence of ghosts and the way in which the photographic plate could detect realities invisible to the human eye. The arti cle situates Röntgen's discovery within a history of ghost fiction, ghost hunting, and ghost-like photographs.