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Common scents : comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction /

Who smells? Surveying nearly 80 novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, 'Common Scents' provides a reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carlisle, Janice
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Smelling others
  • Melancholic men
  • Women of substance
  • Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend.