The Language of the Eyes
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The Language of the Eyes

Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1927

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Language of the Eyes

Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1927

About this book

While Darwinian and Freudian theories of vision and sexuality have represented women as lacking visual agency, Daryl Ogden's The Language of the Eyes argues that "the gaze" is not merely a masculine phenomenon, and that women have powerfully desiring eyes as well. Ogden offers a comprehensive cultural history of female visuality in England by analyzing scientific writings, conduct books, illustrated periodicals, poetry, painting, and novels, and he makes important and hitherto unrecognized connections between literary history, cultural studies, and science studies. In so doing, Ogden accomplishes what numerous feminist critics—especially film theorists—have not: the recovery of the modern female spectator from historical obscurity.

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Table of contents

  1. The Language of the Eyes
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: A Feminine Language of the Eyes?
  6. 1. The Conduct of the Eyes: Feminine Discourses of Vision in Eighteenth-Century England
  7. 2. Ocular Reproduction, Sexual Difference, and Romantic Vision
  8. 3. The Descent of Sexual Selection: Evolution and the Politics of Female Vision in Victorian England
  9. 4. Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and the Modernist Female Spectator
  10. Conclusion: Clarissa Dalloway and Modern Female Visuality in England
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index