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Sensory experiments : psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling / Erica Fretwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fretwell, Erica, 1982- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychophysics.
- Senses and sensation--Social aspects.
- Senses and sensation.
- Racism--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Racism.
- Science--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Psychological aspects.
- Racism--United States--History--19th century.
- Science--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Science.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fretwell, Erica, 1982- Sensory experiments.
- ISBN:
- 9781478012450
- 1478012455
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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