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

by Erica Fretwell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478010932
• ISBN13: 9781478010937
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"