Reading smell in eighteenth-century fiction /

Reading smell in eighteenth-century fiction / Emily C. Friedman.

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"Reading Smell examines how far the novel, which is so often claimed to be a repository of modernity and changing mores, can be understood through a reintroduction of olfactory information. After decades of reading for all kinds of racial, cultural, gendered, and other sorts of absences back in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Friedman, Emily C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, Pa. : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Copublished with Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Odors in literature.
Smell in literature.
English fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the ghost of a perfume, the challenge of recovery
  • Clouds of smoke, huffs of snuff: the smells of tobacco
  • Running to the smelling-bottle
  • The smell of other people
  • The age of sulfur
  • Conclusion: the great unscenting.

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