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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
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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
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
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