A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire

Constance Classen is Visiting Scholar at McGill University, Canada and director of an interdisciplinary project on art, museums and the senses. She is the editor of The Book of Touch (2005), and the author of, among other works, Worlds of Sense: Exploring the Senses in History and Across Cultures (1993), The Color of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination (1998) and The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch (2012).

Introduction: The Transformation of Perception Constance Classen (McGill University, Canada)
1. The Social Life of the Senses: The Assaults and Seductions of Modernity (Kate Flint, University of Southern California, USA)
2. Urban Sensations: The Shifting Sensescape of the City Alain Corbin (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Stimulation and Distraction, Gratification and Control Erika D. Rappaport (University of California, USA)
4. The Senses in Religion: Migrations of Sacred and Sensory Values David Morgan (Duke University, USA)
5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From the Senses to Sensations Robert Jütte (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
6. Medicine and the Senses: Seeing, Hearing and Smelling Disease David S. Barnes (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
7. The Senses in Literature: Industry and Empire Nicholas Daly (University College Dublin, UK)
8. The Senses in Art: From the Romantics to the Futurists Constance Classen (McGill University, Canada)
9. Sensory Media: The World Without and the World Within (Alison Griffiths, City University of New York, USA)
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