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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
By Purnell, Carolyn
- ISBN
- 9780393249378 9780393249361
- Publisher
- Norton
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2017 | Arts and Humanities
Historian Purnell aims to show how in the 18th and 19th centuries "people experienced their senses in daily life." Given their understanding of "sensibility," she writes, they "trusted that every decision, sensation, purchase, touch, sight, scent, taste, and experience had the power to transform the mind, body, and personality." This book ranges well beyond the Enlightenment. Its chapters span the "pitch-bl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
