A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age (Paperback)

Introduction: "Make it New! - Reforming the Senses David Howes (Concordia University, Canada) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Ordering and Disordering the Modern Sensorium Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 2. Urban Sensations: A Retrospective of Multisensory Drift Alex Rhys-Taylor (Goldsmiths University, UK) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Commercial Aesthetics for a Suburban Age Adam Mack (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) 4. The Senses in Religion: Pluralism, Technology and Change Isaac A. Weiner (Ohio State University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From Sensation to Computation Mathew Nudds (University of Warwick, UK) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Bodies, Technologies and the Empowerment of the Patient Anamaria Iosif Ross (independent scholar) 7. The Senses in Literature: From the Modernist Shock of Sensation to Postcolonial and Virtual Voices Ralf Hertel (University of Hamburg, Germany) 8. Art and the Senses: The Avant-Garde Challenge to the Visual Arts Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) 9. Sensory Media: Virtual Worlds and the Training of Perception Michael Bull (University of Sussex, UK) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index