Weeping Eyes
Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66175-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66175-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Megan Nash teaches in English and film at The University of Sydney. She deploys her multi-disciplinary training in research that operates at the junction between literature and biology, and has published research in both disciplines, in journals including Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 19, and PNAS.
Introduction; 1. Adam Smith's sore eyes; 2. Richardson's liquid proofs; 3. Burney's salt rheum; 4. Dickens's optic nerve; 5. Collins's sentimental secretions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-66175-2 / 1009661752 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-66175-1 / 9781009661751 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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