‘Impalpable to the eye’: Sight, Touch, and the Sciences of the Senses in Romantic Literature
Résumé
‘Impalpable to the eye’: Sight, Touch, and the Sciences of the Senses in Romantic Literature explores the ways in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century research into the physiology of the senses helped Romantic writers imagine new modalities of sensation, in an attempt at turning touch into a visionary sense.