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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Fretwell, Erica
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 10/16/2020
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.