Weeping eyes: seeing and feeling in the sentimental tradition
Auteur :
Nash, Megan
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009661751
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2026
Poids :
500 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.