Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels 1840-1900 by Stephen Kern

Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels 1840-1900

Picturing History

Stephen Kern

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Eyes of Love argues against a widely held theory about the gaze - that women are merely passive erotic objects, while men are active erotic subjects. Stephen Kern focuses our attention on eyes and the meaning they convey. This simple idea, here br...

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