{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-the-senses-in-the-age-of-enlightenment-the-cultural-histories-series-4-9780857853424","title":"A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne 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 \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-century France\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), as well as many articles on the body in the culture of the Enlightenment. She is currently completing a book entitled \u003ci\u003eSingular Beings: Passions and Pathologies of the Scholar in France, 1720-1840\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era \u003ci\u003eAnne C.Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. The Social Life of the Senses: A New Approach to Eighteenth-Century Politics and Public Life \u003ci\u003eSophia Rosenfeld (University of Virginia, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Urban Sensations: Motion and Commotion in Eighteenth-Century Cities \u003ci\u003eClare Brant (King’s College London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Coffee, Chintz, and Sofas \u003ci\u003eJoan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. The Senses In Religion: Listening To God in the Eighteenth Century \u003ci\u003ePhyllis Mack (Rutgers University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Blindness and Insight \u003ci\u003eLissa Roberts (University of Twente, the Netherlands\u003c\/i\u003e) 6. Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences \u003ci\u003ePatrick Singy (Union College, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e7. The Senses in Literature: Pleasures of Imagining in Poetry and Prose \u003ci\u003eRowan Rose Boyson (King's College London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Art and the Senses: Experiencing the Arts in the Age of Sensibility \u003ci\u003eSarah Cohen (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) and Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa, USA\u003c\/i\u003e) 9. Sensory Media: The Enlightenment in the Atlantic World \u003ci\u003eRichard Cullen Rath (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA\u003c\/i\u003e) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406323261783,"sku":"9780857853424","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-the-senses-in-the-age-of-enlightenment-the-cultural-histories-series-4-9780857853424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}