... Croissart, and Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart Poe: Optics, Hysteria, and Æsthetic Theory / 53 ist” [Lawrence 70] This is right — and wrong: science becomes aesthetic theory in Poe, and is used ... as above, is Poe’s Poe: Optics, Hysteria, and Æsthetic Theory / 57 reigning melancholy of the countenance The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless, and seemingly pupil-less, and I shrank involuntarily ... acceptation of the word will appear later in the text of “Berenice.” Poe: Optics, Hysteria, and Æsthetic Theory / 51 nomenon where desire and affection “arise as if by electrical sympathy,” brought about,...