Scents & sensibility : perfume in Victorian literary culture /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maxwell, Catherine, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1800-1899
Perfumes in literature.
Perfumes > History.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Parfums dans la littérature.
Parfums > Histoire.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Manners and customs.
Perfumes.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 19e siècle.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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