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  • Looking Back, Groping Forward: Rethinking Sensory History

    Author(s)
    Denney, Peter
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    Denney, Peter
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Commentators in mid eighteenth-century London might have been surprised to learn that they lived in an age of Enlightenment, in which vision had consolidated its reign over the other senses; for they often wrote about precisely the contrary, about the dangers as well as the delights of an intractably material world that penetrated the body through the skin, tongue, nose and ears as well as through the eyes. Nowhere was this clearer, perhaps, than at Vauxhall Gardens, an intoxicating space, according to Henry Fielding, where people went to be 'gratified in almost every Sense at once' (Fielding 1742, 420).Commentators in mid eighteenth-century London might have been surprised to learn that they lived in an age of Enlightenment, in which vision had consolidated its reign over the other senses; for they often wrote about precisely the contrary, about the dangers as well as the delights of an intractably material world that penetrated the body through the skin, tongue, nose and ears as well as through the eyes. Nowhere was this clearer, perhaps, than at Vauxhall Gardens, an intoxicating space, according to Henry Fielding, where people went to be 'gratified in almost every Sense at once' (Fielding 1742, 420).
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    Journal Title
    Rethinking History
    Volume
    15
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2011.603940
    Subject
    Historical studies
    Global and world history
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44010
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