Feeling pleasures : the sense of touch in Renaissance England /
The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary. Each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to lose touch was to lose life itself. Alternativ...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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