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1 online resource illustrations (black and white) |
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The Cultural Histories Ser |
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The Cultural Histories Ser
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| Contents |
Cover page -- Hallftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- contents -- list of illustrations -- series preface -- editor's acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Transformation of Perception -- SOCIAL AND SENSORY CLASSIFICATIONS -- THE SMELLS AND SOUNDS OF CITY LIFE -- THE EXPANDING VISUAL FIELD -- EMPIRES OF SENSATION -- INDUSTRIAL PERCEPTIONS -- THE CIVIL SENSES -- THINKING THROUGH THE SENSES -- THE SENSES AT WAR -- CONCLUSION: NEW WORLDS OF SENSE -- CHAPTER ONE The Social Life of the Senses: The Assaults and Seductions of Modernity |
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CHAPTER TWO Urban Sensations: The Shifting Sensescape of the City -- PART I -- PART II -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER THREE The Senses in the Marketplace: Stimulation and Distraction, Gratification and Control -- CHAPTER FOUR The Senses in Religion: Migrations of Sacred and Sensory Values -- THE QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL MIGRATION -- IMAGINING CHRISTENDOM -- EVANGELICAL PRINT AND GLOBAL MISSIONS -- THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF MODERNITY: BEYOND CHRISTIANITY -- SPIRIT OF THE AGE: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND MATERIAL PRESENCE |
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CHAPTER FIVE The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Senses to Sensations -- THE OBJECTIVATION OF THE SENSES -- A "REALISTIC" CONCEPT OF THE SENSES -- THE ADVANCEMENTS OF SENSORY PHYSIOLOGY -- THE DISCOVERY OF NEW SENSES -- NEW INVESTIGATIONAL METHODS AND TECHNIQUES -- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SIGHT -- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HEARING -- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SMELL -- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE -- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TOUCH -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- CHAPTER SIX The Senses in Medicine: Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling Disease -- "OPEN UP A FEW CORPSES": BICHAT AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY |
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LAËNNEC'S DELIGHT: THE APOTHEOSIS OF SENSORY EMPIRICISM -- "EXHIBITION" AND "OBSERVATION": FROM HEROIC REMEDIES TO SKEPTICAL RESTRAINT IN MEDICAL TREATMENT -- SENSING HEALTH HAZARDS: THE SLUM AND THE DISEASE MIST -- THE SMELL OF DISEASE -- "NOT EVERYTHING THAT STINKS KILLS, AND NOT EVERYTHING THAT KILLS STINKS": TOWARD A SANITARY-BACTERIOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS -- DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGY AND THE READING OF THE BODY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Senses in Literature: Industry and Empire -- ROMANTIC -- VICTORIAN -- CHAPTER EIGHT Art and the Senses: From the Romantics to the Futurists |
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THE EYE AND THE HAND: SPLITTING THE ARTS -- IMPRESSIONS AND SYMBOLS: PAINTING, SCULPTURE ,AND THE DECORATIVE ARTS -- PERFORMING THE SENSES: MUSIC, DANCE, AND THEATER -- THE SENSORY POETICS OF SPACE: ARCHITECTURAL ENSEMBLES -- ART, THE SENSES, AND SOCIETY -- MODERN SENSATIONS: THE AVANT-GARDE AND FUTURISM -- CHAPTER NINE Sensory Media: The World Without and the World Within -- NEW MEDIA, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND THE SENSES -- THE WORLD WITHOUT: MEDIA AND THE SENSES IN THE MUSEUM -- THE WORLD WITHIN: MEDIA AND THE SENSES IN THE PRISON -- CONCLUSION -- notes -- bibliography -- notes on contributors -- index |
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Senses and sensation -- History
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Senses and sensation
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Colonies
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Classen, Constance, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
1474233074 |
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9781474233071 |
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