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Sensory Experiments – Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

Autor Erica Fretwell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2020
In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics--a scientific movement originating in Germany and dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience--shifted the understandings of feeling from the epistemology of sentiment to the phenomenological terrain of lived experience. Through analyses of medical case studies, spirit photographs, perfumes, music theory, recipes, and the work of canonical figures ranging from Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins to James Weldon Johnson and Emily Dickinson, Fretwell outlines how the five senses became important elements in the biopolitical work of constructing human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability. In its entanglement with social difference, psychophysics contributed to the racialization of aesthetics while sketching out possibilities for alternate modes of being over and against the figure of the bourgeois liberal individual. Although psychophysics has largely been forgotten, Fretwell demonstrates that its importance to shaping social order through scientific notions of sensation is central to contemporary theories of new materialism, posthumanism, aesthetics, and affect theory.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478010937
ISBN-10: 1478010932
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 26 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. New Sensation 1
1. Sight: Unreconstructed Body Images 35
Interval 1. Colorful Sounds 79
2. Sound: The Acoustics of Social Harmony 87
Interval 2. Notes on Scent 124
3. Smell: Perfume, Women, and Other Volatile Spirits 131
Interval 3. Olfactory Gusto 167
4. Taste: Scripts for Sweetness, Measures of Pleasure 174
Interval 4. Mouthfeel 213
5. Touch: Life Writing Between Skin and Flesh 221
Coda. Afterlives and Antelives of Feeling 257
Notes 265
Bibliography 298
Index

Notă biografică

Erica Fretwell is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Descriere

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.