Weeping Eyes : Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition
by
Megan Nash
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1009661752
ISBN-13
9781009661751
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 19th, 2026
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
5 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersHistory of medicineOptometry / opticiansImpact of science & technology on societyImpact of science and technology on society
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Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their role in affect and emotion, probing the different ways that tears are conceptualised in the sentimental and scientific literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Eyes function as organs of both perception and expression: they can see, but they can also show. Challenging a long-running scholarly bias in favour of their visual function, Weeping Eyes foregrounds the organ's major role in affect and emotion, probing the different ways that tears are conceptualised in both sentimental and scientific literature. Centred around the rise of ophthalmology as a discipline in Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, it considers how historical developments in ocular science shaped literary depictions of seeing and feeling. By rethinking what it can mean to cry, Megan Nash overturns critical paradigms that have long dominated ideas of the eyes and vision, and tackles some of the most pressing conceptual questions of affect studies.
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