Weeping eyes : seeing and feeling in the sentimental tradition / Megan Nash.

Author/creator Nash, Megan author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Copyright Date©2026
Descriptionx, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Adam Smith's sore eyes -- Richardson's liquid proofs -- Burney's salt rheum -- Dickens's optic nerve -- Collins's sentimental secretions.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Nash, Megan Weeping eyes Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026 9781009661720
Issued in other formebook version : 9781009661720
LCCN 2025034411
ISBN9781009661751
ISBN1009661752 hardcover
ISBN9781009661744 paperback
ISBN1009661744 paperback
ISBNelectronic publication

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