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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Emily C., author.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Odors in literature.

Smell in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Ch01. CLOUDS OF SMOKE, HUFFS OF SNUFF; Ch02. RUNNING TO THE SMELLING-BOTTLE; Ch03. THE SMELL OF OTHER PEOPLE; Ch04. THE AGE OF SULFUR; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61148-753-6