Scents & sensibility : perfume in Victorian literary culture / Catherine Maxwell.
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TextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9780191005206
- 0191005207
- 9780191771460
- 0191771465
- Scents and sensibility
- Perfumes in literature
- Perfumes -- History
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Parfums dans la littérature
- Parfums -- Histoire
- Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Angleterre -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English literature
- Manners and customs
- Perfumes
- Perfumes in literature
- England
- 1800-1899
- 820.9/35309034 23
- PR468.P363 M39 2017
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This lively, accessible, and meticulously researched book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses.
1. Top notes: Victorian perfume contexts -- 2. Perfumed melodies, violet memories: scent and remembrance in the nineteenth century -- 3. Les fleurs du mâle: Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater -- 4. Scent, the body, and the cosmopolitan flaireur: John Addington Symonds and Lafcadio Hearn -- 5. Carnal Flowers, charnel flowers: tuberose in late Victorian poetry -- 6. Michael Field's fragrant imagination -- 7. Dandies and decadents: Oscar Wilde and Arthur Symons -- 8. Victorian drydown and sillage: Virginia Woolf and Compton Mackenzie.
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