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Book SynopsisAnne C. Vila is Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is the author of
Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-century France (1998), as well as many articles on the body in the culture of the Enlightenment. She is currently completing a book entitled
Singular Beings: Passions and Pathologies of the Scholar in France, 1720-1840.
Trade Review[A] vital introduction both to the key problematic of the age and to that of history itself. It bears witness to the complex dance of the senses and the intellect that characterizes eighteenth-century culture in so many of its forms … The pages are silky and smooth, and its illustrations and front cover are produced in the most luxurious colour. This book is a pleasure to look at and to handle; it is a wonderfully concrete reminder of the significance of the senses in the production of history. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era
Anne C.Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: A New Approach to Eighteenth-Century Politics and Public Life
Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Virginia, USA) 2. Urban Sensations: Motion and Commotion in Eighteenth-Century Cities
Clare Brant (King’s College London, UK) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Coffee, Chintz, and Sofas
Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 4. The Senses In Religion: Listening To God in the Eighteenth Century
Phyllis Mack (Rutgers University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Blindness and Insight
Lissa Roberts (University of Twente, the Netherlands) 6. Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences
Patrick Singy (Union College, USA) 7. The Senses in Literature: Pleasures of Imagining in Poetry and Prose
Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London, UK) 8. Art and the Senses: Experiencing the Arts in the Age of Sensibility
Sarah Cohen (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) and Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa, USA) 9. Sensory Media: The Enlightenment in the Atlantic World
Richard Cullen Rath (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index
