Projektnummer

0061052

Zusammenfassung

This project on the affective dimensions of citizenship treats the sensorium as a central category of analysis. It draws from phenomenology, the history of science, and affect studies to explore the overlooked connection between the nation and bodily sensation. The specific focus is on how American literature, from the Civil War to World War I, limned a radical transformation of the sensorium. After emancipation, public interest in how the senses could be racially coded intersected with new accounts of sense perception produced by the empirical sciences. Deeply engaged in philosophical...