Dr. Kimberly DeFazio’s book, The City of the Senses, has been published by Palgrave.
Through an analysis of a wide range of literary and cultural texts—from Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Dickens’s Hard Times, to Lost in Translation, Crash and Ikea—The City of the Senses argues that the city is essentially a material place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.
Further information about the book can be found here:
http://us.macmillan.com/thecityofthesenses/
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