Sensible Flesh
Subtitle: On Touch in Early Modern Culture
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780812218299
Subjects: Cultural studies; Touch; Senses and sensation; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; Physiological Psychology; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Anthropology - Cultural
First sentence: Touch occupies a complex, shifting, and sometimes contradictory position in the representation of the five senses in Western culture.