The reader as Peeping Tom: nonreciprocal gazing in narrative fiction and film

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter and the paradoxes of privacy

Seeing is believing: power and the gaze in Charles Dickens's The adventures of Oliver Twist

The voyeur and the imperial gaze: Herman Melville's Typee

Turning people into characters: Henry James's "In the cage"

The politics of looking in/at Alfred Hitchcock's Rear window

Can you guess how you'd look? Michael Powell's Peeping Tom

What's bugging Harry? Francis Ford Coppola's The conversation

Conclusion.