Reading smell in eighteenth-century fiction /
"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 in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lewisburg : Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2016]
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| Series: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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| 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 193 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611487527 1611487528 |