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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Sensory History"”.
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Engagement in Nineteenth-Century England
… Emphasising material culture, emotional, and sensory history, this dissertation will look at the engaged individual and couple on both an individual and societal level through varied source materials including: personal correspondence, diaries, prescriptive literature, works of fiction, …
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Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
This dissertation examines the sensory dimensions of Anglo-Ottoman encounters in the seventeenth century through a micro-history of Sir John Finch (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel (1638–1722), two English travellers whose experiences in the Ottoman Empire were shaped by cultivated perception and …
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Hearing Africa: Auditory Perception and the Construction of Race In Early Modern England
… that bodies were essentially connected through sensory observation and experience, and that as the self was engaged with the other, the self strengthened its identity by engaging in a process of othering, forming rudimentary stereotypes of outsiders based on phenotypic features. This thesis …
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Enslaved People's Environmental Thought in the Antebellum American South
… Taking an expansive view of intellectual history, I see ideas as materially enacted as well as written and discussed, and argue that enslaved people’s experiential knowledge of nature provided them with access to alternative spatial and intellectual geographies. Histories of the emergence …
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
… This study situates medieval Chinese olfactory history in the context of an increasingly open world characterised by dynamic cross-cultural contacts, remaking of demographic and religious landscapes, as well as growing knowledge about hygiene and medicine. Building on the established scholarship …
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
<p>The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism offers a new historical narrative about the rise of fundamentalism. I argue that sensing bodies laid the foundation of fundamentalism. New kinds of Christian sensory practices …
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Sensation, Sacred Landscapes, and the Sense of the Past in Britain and Ireland, 1689-1760
… between attitudes to the visible past and the history of emotions, the senses, and experience to reveal the religious inflections of the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility. With this in mind, I work to nuance recent histories that have shown that the British landscape was held to be …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… there will be a focus on the spatial and sensory landscapes. The sources are drawn from multiple parishes. The evidence from this period for Cornwall is fragmentary and scattered across various parishes. Therefore, this discussion will build upon those featured in the Cornish glebe …