The Language of the Eyes: Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1927

by Daryl Ogden

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791464997
• ISBN13: 9780791464991
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"