Chapter 1 Vision in Context: Reflections and Refractions, MartinJay; Part 1 Historical Perspectives; Chapter 2 Refracting Classical Vision: Changing Cultures of Viewing, SimonGoldhill; Chapter 3 Sight and Vision in Medieval Christian Thought, JanetSoskice; Chapter 4 The Wit of the Letter: Holbein's Lacan, TomConley; Chapter 5 The Visibility of Visuality, Peterde Bolla; Chapter 6 “;Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things”: Vision and the Invisible in the Later Nineteenth Century, GillianBeer; Part 2 Contemporary Perspectives; Chapter 7 Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary “;Theory”, MelvilleStephen; Chapter 8 Imaginary Identity: Space, Gender, Nation, HelgaGeyer-Ryan; Chapter 9 Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's Transfiguration of Night, CathrynVasseleu; Chapter 10 The Gaze in the Closet, MiekeBal; Chapter 11 The Gaze of Inversion: The Lesbian as Visionary, Renée C.Hoogland; Chapter 12 The Homosocial Gaze According to Ian McEwan's, Ernstvan Alphen; Chapter 13 “;Other's Others”: Spectatorship and Difference, IritRogoff; Chapter 14 “;Father, Can't You See I'm Filming?”, ParveenAdams; Chapter 15 “;The Contexts of Vision” from a Specific Standpoint, TeresaBrennan;