Weeping Eyes

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ISBN: 9781009661751

Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Megan Nash (University of Auckland)

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English

Cambridge University Press
19 February 2026

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History of medicine; Optometry & opticians; Impact of science & technology on society

Eyes function as organs of both perception and expression: they can see, but they can also show. Challenging a long-running scholarly bias in favour of their visual function, Weeping Eyes foregrounds the organ's major role in affect and emotion, probing the different ways that tears are conceptualised in both sentimental and scientific literature. Centred around the rise of ophthalmology as a discipline in Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, it considers how historical developments in ocular science shaped literary depictions of seeing and feeling. By rethinking what it can mean to cry, Megan Nash overturns critical paradigms that have long dominated ideas of the eyes and vision, and tackles some of the most pressing conceptual questions of affect studies.

By: Megan Nash (University of Auckland)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 447g
ISBN: 9781009661751
ISBN 10: 1009661752
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Megan Nash a Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Auckland. She deploys her multi-disciplinary training in research that operates at the junction between literature and biology, and has published research in both disciplines, in journals including Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 19, and PNAS.

Reviews for Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

'In this original, erudite book Nash deftly analyses how sight and insight operate in a complex observational network. Weeping Eyes masterfully weaves various scientific and literary discourses into a compelling critical narrative.' Albert J. Rivero, Louise Edna Goeden Professor of English, Marquette University 'Weeping Eyes offers a timely contribution to materialist and embodied readings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Drawing on a compelling range of sources Nash offers a sensitive reading of the significance of vision in the development of sympathetic feeling, whilst also newly-assessing the messy and disruptive force of eyes that weep and hurt.' Heather Tilley, author of Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing (Cambridge University Press, 2017)