Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Richardson
salts
Scent
Smell
smelling bottles
Smollett
snuff
snuff taker
snuff-taking
softlaunch
Spa towns
Spas
Stench
sulfur
Swift
tobacco
vinaigrette
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- ISBN 9781684484805
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
EMILY C. FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of English at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
