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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Friedman, Emily C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg : Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Series:	Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:	English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Odors in literature. Smell in literature. English fiction. 1700 - 1799 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the ghost of a perfume, the challenge of recovery
Clouds of smoke, huffs of snuff: the smells of tobacco
Running to the smelling-bottle
The smell of other people
The age of sulfur
Conclusion: the great unscenting.