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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"History of the Senses"”.
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
My thesis analyses Dante’s dreams and visions in the Vita nuova and the Commedia from a sensory-cognitive point of view, examining them as moments of privileged perception, when the sensations described appear not to correspond to perceptions necessitated by immediate external surroundings. While …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
The thesis investigates anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely …