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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 35 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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ITK audio.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Liz Thompson. |
| Summary |
Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. Author bio: Carolyn Purnell received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She is a history instructor, an interior design writer, and a lover of bizarre facts. This is her first book. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Senses and sensation -- History -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment -- Influence.
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Thompson, Liz. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781501969232 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1501969234 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13536641 |
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