Description
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.
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
