Smell in eighteenth-century England : a social sense /
In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Past & present book series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0192582453 9780192582454 9780191879760 0191879762 |