Isbn: 9780226834320 - intimate subjects: touch and tangibility in britain's cerebral age (8 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 2024. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorSimeon Koole is a lecturer in liberal arts and history at the University of Bristol.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 328 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book tells the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain through a single sense-touch. In this time and place, historian Simeon Koole argues, our sense of ourselves and of others as physical bodies was altered, and space itself became more intimate and more vulnerable. Taking us inside different spaces--train cars, tea shops, classrooms, police stations, foggy London streets--Koole shows how the experience of touch was transformed. At its core, Koole's book is about the nexus of embodiment and modernity. In addition to analyzing specific spaces, he also examines how the emerging disciplines of neurology and experimental psychology sought to understand the connections between sensation and selfhood. Tracing understandings, experiences, and practices of touch, this book shows us how personal space (and its disruption) shapes history'.…