Book
The sensational past : how the Enlightenment changed the way we use our senses / Carolyn Purnell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393249378
- ISBN: 0393249379
- Physical Description: 302 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Senses and sensation > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > Influence. |
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