Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age

by Simeon Koole

An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch.

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226834344
• ISBN13: 9780226834344
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"