Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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New in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined in favor of the visual, the aural, touch, and taste. Incorporating wide-scale research and focused case studies from among the most striking or prevalent uses of olfactory language in eighteenth-century British prose fiction, Friedman examines how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked sensory information might reshape our understanding of these texts. By highlighting scents and their shifting meanings across the period-bodies, tobacco, smelling-bottles, and sulfur-Reading Smell not only provides new insights into canonical works by authors like Swift, Smollett, Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Lewis, but also sheds new light on the history of the British novel as a whole.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781684484805 |
Publisher: | Bucknell University Press |
Imprint: | Bucknell University Press |
Pub date: | 16 Jun 2023 |
DEWEY: | 823.5093561 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 228 |
Weight: | 254g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |