Sensory Experiments
Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2020
336 pages
978-1-4780-1245-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
10/2020
Duke University Press
€34.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Book
10/2020
Duke University Press
€135.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Content
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
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
