Weeping Eyes : Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Name: Weeping Eyes
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009661751
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ISBN: 9781009661751

by Megan Nash

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Format Hardback

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: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers History of medicine Optometry / opticians Impact of science & technology on society Impact 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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