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Society, culture and the auditory imagination in modern France : the humanity of hearing

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This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture.

The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the idea of the universal human condition within the modern French historical setting.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
1137455349 / 9781137455345
Hardback
944.081
26/01/2015
United Kingdom
English
x, 169 pages : illustrations (black and white)
23 cm
Professional & Vocational Learn More