Sensory Experiments : Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling - 9781478010937

Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics-a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience-became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.

• | : Erica Fretwell
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 16, 2020
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1478010932
• | ISBN-13: 9781478010937