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Author:

Friedman, Emily C., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016029448

Title:

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

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Odors in literature.
Smell in literature.
English fiction.
Odors in literature.
Smell in literature.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"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 into the novel, this book takes one step further: to consider how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked olfactory assumptions might reshape our understanding of these texts."-- Provided by publisher

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

ISBN:

1611487528
9781611487527

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945032429

LCCN:

2016011660

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)