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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ogden, Daryl, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Series:SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Eye in literature.
Feminism and literature > Great Britain.
Literature and science > Great Britain.
Women and literature > Great Britain.
Visual perception in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Vision in literature.
Sex in literature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Œil dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne.
Perception visuelle dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Vision dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Feminism and literature.
Literature and science.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a feminine language of the eyes?
  • 1. The conduct of the eyes : feminine discourses of vision in eighteenth-century England
  • Case Study 1. Lesbian vision in Clarissa
  • 2. Ocular reproduction, sexual difference, and romantic vision
  • Case Study 2. Domestic and sexual vision in Adam Bede
  • 3. The descent of sexual selection : evolution and the politics of female vision in Victorian England
  • Case Study 3. Female spectatorship and sexual selection in Far from the madding crowd
  • 4. Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, and the modernist female spectator
  • Case Study 4. Feminine epistemology and visual desire in To the lighthouse
  • Conclusion : Clarissa Dalloway and modern female visuality in England.

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