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The language of the eyes : science, sexuality, and female vision in English literature and culture, 1690-1927 /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
State University of New York Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423748743 9781423748748 0791464997 9780791464991 9780791483022 0791483029 |