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.
Continue reading Vicarious Observation: Conveying Pleasure and Sensory Experience in Eighteenth-Century British PeriodicalsAuthor: Manuel Kohlert
He is a lecturer in Early Modern and Modern History at Kassel University, where he works on entertainment and the body in eighteenth and nineteenth century Great Britain and Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Humboldt University Berlin. His most recent book, Ideale Balance: Die politische Ökonomie der Emotionen während der spanischen Expansion, deals with emotions during the Spanish expansion in Latin America.