Rontgen's Ghosts: Photography, X-Rays, and the Victorian Imagination

@article{Grove1997RontgensGP,
  title={Rontgen's Ghosts: Photography, X-Rays, and the Victorian Imagination},
  author={Allen W. Grove},
  journal={Literature and Medicine},
  year={1997},
  volume={16},
  pages={141 - 173}
}
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. 
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