Smell in Eighteenth-Century England - A Social Sense

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Talking Dirty: Languages of Smell


• 2: Smell on the Streets: Occupational Odours and Sanitary Scents


• 3: Air and Odour: Atmospheric Investigations


• 4: The Smell of Drugs: Medicines, the Senses, and Efficacy


• 5: Metaphoric Odours: Political Corruption and Heavenly Scents


• 6: Tobacco's Publics: Smoking out and Snuffing in


• 7: Material Cultures of Scent: The Curious Smelling Bottle


• 8: Individual Atmospheres: Perfume and Sensory Performances


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

William Tullett is a Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London, King's College London, and the University of Derby. He held a Past and Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. He works on the social and cultural history of England between 1650 and 1850 and especially histories of the senses, emotions, and materiality. Currently William is working on a project on sound, bells, and society in England between 1600 and 1945.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Odor history is presented here convincingly as an integral part of a broad social history. So no further "hyphen story", but an innovative approach to questions about body concepts, sociability, space, gender, materiality, consumption or even politics and religion. Tullett's pointed theses offer enormous potential for connection and contradiction.

Product details

• Authors: William Tullett, William (Lecturer in History Tullett
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780198844136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884413-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: The Past and Present Book Series; The Past and Present Book Series; Past and Present Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions