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The analyses of texts within this title draw on a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, including techniques of framing and still-life from art-historical criticism and museum studies, psychoanalytic theories of hysteria and mourning, literary theories of melodrama, gender theory, performance theory and more.The study explores an unusual range of novels, from canonical French works published in the early 1900s to a colonial fiction from the 1950s to a 1965 detective narrative to an autofiction of the 1990s. In this way, this text offers a thumbnail glimpse of the history of the twentieth-century novel in French. The range of works studied, as well as interdisciplinary approaches applied, is nonetheless tautly controlled and focused by the argument. Specifically, the book explores the ways narratives set up scenarios of display, only to displace the viewer or reader they seem to solicit. Narrative manipulation of visual strategies at work between text and reader has been insufficiently studied, and this book aims to correct this gap.