Daryl Ogden is Executive Director of Project GRAD Long Island.

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Acknowledgments

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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