postmedieval 3.4: The Intimate Senses
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Intimate Senses/Sensing Intimacy (Holly Dugan and Lara Farina)
ESSAYS
Transcending, othering, detecting: Smell, premodernity, modernity (Mark M. Smith)
The play of skin in The Changeling (Patricia Cahill)
Sense and simulacra: Manipulation of the senses in medieval ‘copies’ of Jerusalem (Laura D. Gelfand)
The city out of breath: Jacobean city comedy and the odors of restraint (Hristomir A. Stanev)
Revolting anatomy in the Farce nouvelle des cinq sens de l’homme (Julie Singer)
RESPONSE ESSAYS
The cultural life of the senses (David Howe)
On sensory history and contemporary placemaking in the social sciences (Mark Paterson)
A neuroscientific perspective on medieval intimacies (Jonathan Cole)
A third ear in the intimate senses? (Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren)
As if our friends felt the sun for us (Georgina Kleege)
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Books and bodies, literature and the senses in the early middle ages (Clare A. Lees)
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