The foul and the fragrant : odor and the French social imagination
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The foul and the fragrant : odor and the French social imagination
Picador, 1994
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Miasme et la jonquille
Note
Originally published: Oxford : Berg, 1986
Includes index
Translation of: Le miasme et la jonquille
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Attempting to put the sense of smell on the historical map, the author of this book conveys the power that smells - from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odours of city cesspools - exercized over the lives (and deaths) of Frenchmen in the 18th and 19th centuries. Integrating an impressive range of disciplines - the histories of science and medicine, urban studies, public health, psychohistory, and literary criticism - Corbin lays bare the deeper implications of smell for science, society, and literature.
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