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Common scents : comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction / Janice Carlisle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlisle, Janice.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Odors in literature.
- Melancholy in literature.
- Smell in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Who smells? Surveying nearly 80 novels written in the 1860's to answer that impolite question, 'Common Scents' provides a reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter.
- Contents:
- Smelling others
- Melancholic men
- Women of substance
- Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-209) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029006-4
- 0-19-803696-5
- 1-60256-993-2
- 9780195185811
- 1-280-53385-4
- 9786610533855
- OCLC:
- 57361664
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