Fretwell Sensory Experiments

Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1245-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fretwell, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

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

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.