Visual Tumult
John Demos
- Sensory Worlds in Early America by Peter Charles Hoffer
Johns Hopkins, 334 pp, $25.00, December 2005, ISBN 0 08 018839 7
As the long skein of historians’ interest continues to unwind – from its once dominant focus on politics and warfare, to the successively ‘new’ fields of intellectual, social and cultural history – the newest of the new is the senses. Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell: each has a history, and each has beckoned to scholars for at least a decade.
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Vol. 28 No. 23 · 30 November 2006 » John Demos » Visual Tumult (print version)
pages 36-37 | 2729 words