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<p>The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney Coombs reveals, however, it was equally important to Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and critics, for whom the distinction between sensation and perception promised the key to understanding literature'
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Coombs, David Sweeney
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813943435
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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