Scents & sensibility :
Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-
Scents & sensibility : Perfume in Victorian literary culture / Scents and sensibility Catherine Maxwell. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017. - xviii, 361 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-347) and index.
Introduction 1: Top Notes: Victorian Perfume Contexts 2: Perfumed Melodies, Violet Memories: Scent and Remembrance in the Nineteenth Century 3: Les Fleurs du Male 4: Scent, the Body, and the Cosmopolitan Flaireur 5: Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Tuberose in Late Victorian Poetry 6: Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination 7: Dandies and Decadents 8: Victorian Drydown and Sillage
This lively, accessible, and meticulously researched book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses.
9780198701750
Perfumes in literature.
Perfumes
English literature
English literature.
Manners and customs.
Perfumes.
Perfumes in literature.--History.--History and criticism.--19th century
England--Social life and customs--19th century.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
820.935309034 / MAX
Scents & sensibility : Perfume in Victorian literary culture / Scents and sensibility Catherine Maxwell. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017. - xviii, 361 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-347) and index.
Introduction 1: Top Notes: Victorian Perfume Contexts 2: Perfumed Melodies, Violet Memories: Scent and Remembrance in the Nineteenth Century 3: Les Fleurs du Male 4: Scent, the Body, and the Cosmopolitan Flaireur 5: Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Tuberose in Late Victorian Poetry 6: Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination 7: Dandies and Decadents 8: Victorian Drydown and Sillage
This lively, accessible, and meticulously researched book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses.
9780198701750
Perfumes in literature.
Perfumes
English literature
English literature.
Manners and customs.
Perfumes.
Perfumes in literature.--History.--History and criticism.--19th century
England--Social life and customs--19th century.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
820.935309034 / MAX