Vicarious Observation: Conveying Pleasure and Sensory Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Periodicals
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Manuel Kohlert, « Vicarious Observation: Conveying Pleasure and Sensory Experience in Eighteenth-Century British Periodicals », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.skpeg5
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The time I spent perusing the British Library’s early modern treasures—thanks to a scholarship from the German Historical Institute London—left me with much to think about for my current research project on the body and pleasure in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century periodicals. First and foremost, my time in London gave me a heightened sense of how newspapers and magazines functioned as a medium for conveying pleasure, not least as a sensory experience. Pleasure, amusements, beauty...