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Maxwell, Catherine,
Scents & sensibility :
Perfume in Victorian literary culture /
Catherine Maxwell.
First edition.
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
xviii, 361 p. :
illustrations (some color) ;
25 cm
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.
Perfumes in literature.
Perfumes
English literature
English literature.
Manners and customs.
Perfumes.
Perfumes in literature.
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1962-
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Scents and sensibility
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-347) and index.
History.
19th century
History and criticism.
fast
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England
Social life and customs
19th century.
England.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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