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Sensory Experiments : Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling /
"In SENSORY EXPERIMENTS Erica Fretwell considers the science of psychophysics, the study of sensory experience, in mid-nineteenth century America. In particular, Fretwell traces the development of "perceptual sensitivity," a metric of an individual's capacity to perceive finer fe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sight : unreconstructed body images
- Sound : the acoustics of social harmony
- Smell : perfume, women, and other volatile spirits
- Taste : sweet measures and lawless pleasures
- Touch : life writing between skin and flesh
- Coda. Afterlives and antelives of feeling.