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Sensational Past Purnell Carolyn Blindfolding children from birth? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Playing a piano made of live cats? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century,…
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Blindfolding children from birth? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Playing a piano made of live cats?
These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? But perception is not dependent on the body alone.
Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time.The Sensational Past focuses on the ways in which small, peculiar, and seemingly unimportant
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