The city and the senses : urban culture since 1500 /
These essays, for the most part, focus on the history of particular sensations, but together they point to the importance of situating them in the context of a wider understanding of the relationship between the human body as sensorium and its urban environment.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Cowan, Alexander. Steward, Jill. |
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| Médium: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007] |
| Edice: | Historical urban studies.
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| On-line přístup: | Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Book review (H-Net) |
Obsah:
- Introduction
- Part 1. An Environment of All the Senses
- Stench in 16th-century Venice
- 'Not carrying out the vile and mechanical arts'
- Touch as a measure of social distinction in early modern Venice
- Speaking and listening in early modern London
- Engineering vision in early modern Paris
- Part 2. The Culture of Consumption
- Touching London: contact, sensibility and the city
- Sewers and sensibilities: the bourgeois faecal experience in the 19th-century city
- 'We demand good and healthy beer.' The nutritional and social significance of beer for the lower classes in mid-19th-century Munich
- Boulevard culture and advertising as spectacle in 19th-century Paris
- Part 3. Cultural Control and Cultural Subversion
- A taste of Vienna: food as a signifier of urban modernity in Vienna 1890-1930
- Seeing imperial Berlin: Lesser Ury, the painter as stranger
- Street noises: celebrating the Liberation of Paris in music and dance
- Index