A cultural history of the senses in the age of Enlightenment, 1650–1800

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Series Preface
Editor's Acknowledgmetns
Introduction : Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era1
	SENSIBILITY, SENTIENCE, AND THE MIND/BODY RELATION
	AMBIGUITIES OF THE SENSES: SENSING AND FEELING TOO MUCH
	THE USES OF THE SENSES
CHAPTER ONE The Social Life of the Senses: A New Approachto Eighteenth-century Politics and Public Life
CHAPTER TWO Urban Sensations: Motion and Commotion in Eighteenth- century Cities
CHAPTER THREE The Senses in the Marketplace: Coffee, Chintz, and Sofas
	A MAGICAL NEW DRINK: COFFEE
	THE TOUCH OF COTTON
	A REVOLUTION IN FURNITURE
	NEW WAYS OF MARKETING NEW GOODS
	THE SENSES IN THE HOME
CHAPTER FOUR The Senses in Religion: Listening to God in the Eighteenth Century
	INTRODUCTION
	A NEW SPIRITUAL AESTHETIC
	EDUCATING THE SENSES
	METHODISM AND MUSIC
	THE MORAVIANS: RELIGION AND TRANSGRESSION
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FIVE The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Blindness and Insight
	THE ENLIGHTENMENT’S “QUANTIFYING SPIRIT”
	EXPLORING NATURAL HISTORY
	THE ENLIGHTENMENT’S PHILOSOPHY OF MANUFACTURES
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SIX Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences
	ENLIGHTENED PERCEPTION
	CONSULTATION BY LETTER
	PERCUSSION OF THE CHEST
	PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SEVEN The Senses in Literature: Pleasures of Imagining in Poetry and Prose
	AUGUST AND DISGUSTED SENSES (c. 1670–1740)
	QUESTIONING VISION AND THE TURN TO DARKNESS (c . 1730–70)
	SENSITIVITY AND SADISM (c. 1760–90)
	SENSUAL AMBIENCE (c. 1790–1810)
	CONCLUSION
CHAPTER EIGHT Art and the Senses: Experiencing the Arts in the Age of Sensibility
	THE VISUAL ARTS
	MUSIC
CHAPTER NINE Sensory Media: Communication and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World
	THE AUTHORITY OF AUTHORS
	THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF PRINTING
	DISTRIBUTION
	READING AND HEARING
	CONCLUSION
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index