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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Tullett, William. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England : A Social Sense. Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, ©2019 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Tullett |
ISBN: | 0192582453 9780192582454 9780191879760 0191879762 |
OCLC Number: | 1111484620 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction1: Talking Dirty: Languages of Smell2: Smell on the Streets: Occupational Odours and Sanitary Scents3: Air and Odour: Atmospheric Investigations4: The Smell of Drugs: Medicines, the Senses, and Efficacy5: Metaphoric Odours: Political Corruption and Heavenly Scents6: Tobacco's Publics: Smoking out and Snuffing in7: Material Cultures of Scent: The Curious Smelling Bottle8: Individual Atmospheres: Perfume and Sensory PerformancesConclusionBibliography |
Series Title: | Past & present book series. |
Responsibility: | William Tullett. |
Abstract:
In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them.
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