{"product_id":"sensory-rhetorics-steph-ceraso-9780271101248","title":"Sensory Rhetorics: Sensation, Persuasion, and the Politics of Feeling","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs our divided political climate attests, rational deliberation has failed to persuade people to rally around issues of public health, race and gender-based violence, climate threats, and political demagoguery. In response, scholars are increasingly turning to sensation for new frameworks to understand our situated, bodily responses to rapidly changing environments. \u003ci\u003eSensory Rhetorics\u003c\/i\u003e puts rhetoric into conversation with sensory studies writ large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume illuminates and interrogates how rhetoric \"makes sense,\" focusing on the ways sensation acts as a suasive force in everyday life.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eEssays in the volume offer an array of (multi)sensory methods and experiences to demonstrate how sensory rhetorics open new avenues for thinking about our world. The volume begins with the role of disgust in our partisan politics and the digital economy, introduces key concepts of sensory rhetoric, and models innovative methods in relation to environmental injustice, anti-racist work, and gender-affirming surgery. The final essays leave readers with provocative questions regarding sensory regimes and exclusion, received notions of meaning, and the deeply anti-sensory attitudes of coloniality to reimagine the future work of sensory rhetoric. Together, the authors argue that this era of unprecedented change requires new kinds of bodily knowledge and sensory methods to help us understand the most pressing issues in contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Kerry Banazek, Natalie Bennie, Kyle S. Bond, Justin Eckstein, Margot Finn, Benjamin Firgens, Romeo García, David M. Grant, Ames Hawkins, Bryan W. Moe, Christa J. Olson, Lisa L. Phillips, and Kelly Williams Nagel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steph Ceraso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271101245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271101248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Steph Ceraso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47612012331263,"sku":"9780271101248","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f20f7beb-639f-4ac9-a11b-1592658c267e.jpg?v=1764517592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sensory-rhetorics-steph-ceraso-9780271101248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}