Visual Tumult
John Demos: Sensory history, 30 November 2006
Sensory Worlds in Early America
by Peter CharlesHoffer.
Johns Hopkins, 334 pp., $25, December 2005,9780801883927 Show More
by Peter CharlesHoffer.
Johns Hopkins, 334 pp., $25, December 2005,
“... map of sensory life, from some (undetermined) beginning point long ago right up to the present. Peter CharlesHoffer, one of sensory history’s leading exponents, acknowledges both approaches and, to a degree, tries them out in his own study. But his central aim is something more. He wishes to give sensory ... ”
