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Scented Visions : Smell in Art, 1850-1914 /

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to "see smell" and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bradstreet, Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Seeing Smell
  • 1. The Fallen Angel
  • 2. Art and Stench
  • 3. Picturing Perfume
  • 4. Smelling Pictures
  • Part II: Decoding Smell
  • 5. Scent, Memory, Visions
  • 6. Scent and Soul
  • 7. The Erotics of Scent
  • 8. Death by Perfume
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index