The sensational past : how the Enlightenment changed the way we use our senses /: how the Enlightenment changed the way we use our senses. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carolyn Purnell.
• Authors: Purnell, Carolyn
• Contents: The self-made man: creating genius in the Enlightenment -- Drinking your way to a new you: self-medication, sensibility, and sociability at the cafø -- Living in a world of sound: the pitch-black markets of Paris -- Becoming useful citizens: the talents of blind (and blindfolded) children -- Blowing smoke up the ass: aromatic medicine and useful science -- What is a sense?: sex, self-preservation, pleasure, and pain -- Harmonious nature: the cat piano, the ocular harpsichord, and scales of scent and taste -- Calling it macaroni: the politics of popular pigments -- The gourmand's gaze: visual eating in the postrevolutionary period -- Digesting nature: exotic animal dining clubs in nineteenth-century England -- Seeing is not believing.
• Publisher Details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (302 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 152.109/033; Senses and sensation -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- Influence; Enlightenment -- Influence; Senses and sensation; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780393249361; 0393249360
• Related ISBNs: 9780393249378; 0393249379
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-278) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.