Scents & Sensibility

Scents & Sensibility
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9780198701750
ISBN-13 : 0198701756
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Scents & Sensibility by : Catherine Maxwell

Download or read book Scents & Sensibility written by Catherine Maxwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores 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. A selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility.


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