Haptic modernism: touch and the tactile in modernist writing
Auteur :
Garrington, Abbie
Éditeur :
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN :
9781474401425
Date de publication :
29 mai 2015
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book contends that the haptic sense - combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception - was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical new bodily experiences brought about by scientific, technological and psychological change.