A cultural history of the senses in the age of Enlightenment. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anne C. Vila.
• Editors: Vila, Anne C, 1961-
• Contents: Introduction: Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era Anne C.Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)1. The Social Life of the Senses: A New Approach to Eighteenth-Century Politics and Public Life Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Virginia, USA)2. Urban Sensations: Motion and Commotion in Eighteenth-Century Cities Clare Brant (King's College London, UK)3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Coffee, Chintz, and Sofas Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania, USA)4. The Senses In Religion: Listening To God in the Eighteenth Century Phyllis Mack (Rutgers University, USA)5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Blindness and Insight Lissa Roberts (University of Twente, the Netherlands)6. Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences Patrick Singy (Union College, USA)7. The Senses in Literature: Pleasures of Imagining in Poetry and Prose Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London, UK)8. Art and the Senses: Experiencing the Arts in the Age of Sensibility Sarah Cohen (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) and Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa, USA)9. Sensory Media: The Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Richard Cullen Rath (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)NotesBibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 152.109409033; Senses and sensation -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474233118; 1474233112
• Related ISBNs: 9781350077911
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