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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

Carolyn Purnell

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Description: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 Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows, 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. Using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life, she demonstrates that, even though we may all be human, over time—even in the same culture—we have used our senses in very different ways. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses. To get started finding The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows, 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. Using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life, she demonstrates that, even though we may all be human, over time—even in the same culture—we have used our senses in very different ways. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses. To get started finding The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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