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Sensory Experiments
Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
Taschenbuch von Erica Fretwell

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Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics—a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience—became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.
Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics—a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience—became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.
Über den Autor
Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. New Sensation 1
1. Sight: Unreconstructed Body Images 35
Interval 1. Colorful Sounds 79
2. Sound: The Acoustics of Social Harmony 87
Interval 2. Notes on Scent 124
3. Smell: Perfume, Women, and Other Volatile Spirits 131
Interval 3. Olfactory Gusto 167
4. Taste: Scripts for Sweetness, Measures of Pleasure 174
Interval 4. Mouthfeel 213
5. Touch: Life Writing Between Skin and Flesh 221
Coda. Afterlives and Antelives of Feeling 257
Notes 265
Bibliography 298
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
ISBN-13: 9781478010937
ISBN-10: 1478010932
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fretwell, Erica
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 151 x 230 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Erica Fretwell
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,5 kg
preigu-id: 117852705
Über den Autor
Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. New Sensation 1
1. Sight: Unreconstructed Body Images 35
Interval 1. Colorful Sounds 79
2. Sound: The Acoustics of Social Harmony 87
Interval 2. Notes on Scent 124
3. Smell: Perfume, Women, and Other Volatile Spirits 131
Interval 3. Olfactory Gusto 167
4. Taste: Scripts for Sweetness, Measures of Pleasure 174
Interval 4. Mouthfeel 213
5. Touch: Life Writing Between Skin and Flesh 221
Coda. Afterlives and Antelives of Feeling 257
Notes 265
Bibliography 298
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 336
ISBN-13: 9781478010937
ISBN-10: 1478010932
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fretwell, Erica
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 151 x 230 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Erica Fretwell
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,5 kg
preigu-id: 117852705
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