Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
New in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined in favor of the visual, the aural, touch, and taste. Incorporating wide-scale research and focused case studies from among the most striking or prevalent uses of olfactory language in eighteenth-century British prose fiction, Friedman examines how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked sensory information might reshape our understanding of these texts. By highlighting scents and their shifting meanings across the period—bodies, tobacco, smelling-bottles, and sulfur—Reading Smell not only provides new insights into canonical works by authors like Swift, Smollett, Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Lewis, but also sheds new light on the history of the British novel as a whole.
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
New in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined in favor of the visual, the aural, touch, and taste. Incorporating wide-scale research and focused case studies from among the most striking or prevalent uses of olfactory language in eighteenth-century British prose fiction, Friedman examines how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked sensory information might reshape our understanding of these texts. By highlighting scents and their shifting meanings across the period—bodies, tobacco, smelling-bottles, and sulfur—Reading Smell not only provides new insights into canonical works by authors like Swift, Smollett, Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Lewis, but also sheds new light on the history of the British novel as a whole.
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

by Emily C. Friedman
Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

by Emily C. Friedman

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New in paperback! Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory. Scent is also both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material cultural. While other intangibles of the human experience have been examined in the context of the eighteenth-century novel, scent has so far remained largely sidelined in favor of the visual, the aural, touch, and taste. Incorporating wide-scale research and focused case studies from among the most striking or prevalent uses of olfactory language in eighteenth-century British prose fiction, Friedman examines how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked sensory information might reshape our understanding of these texts. By highlighting scents and their shifting meanings across the period—bodies, tobacco, smelling-bottles, and sulfur—Reading Smell not only provides new insights into canonical works by authors like Swift, Smollett, Richardson, Burney, Austen, and Lewis, but also sheds new light on the history of the British novel as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684484805
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication date: 06/16/2023
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Pages: 210
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 16 - 18 Years

About the Author

EMILY C. FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of English at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                               
 
Introduction: The Ghost of a Perfume, the Challenge
of Recovery                                                                                          
 
1. Clouds of Smoke, Huffs of Snuff: The Smells of Tobacco                  
 
2. Running to the Smelling-Bottle                                                       
 
3. The Smell of Other People                                                               
 
4. The Age of Sulfur                                                                                 
 
Conclusion: The Great Unscenting                                                      
 
Notes                                                                                                   
 
Bibliography                                                                                        
 
Index                                                                                                    
 
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