Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and Previously Published Material
Introduction: Something in the Air
1. In a Violet Sillage
2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things
3. Confused Words?
4. The Osmazome of Literature
5. Perfumed Letters
6. Smelling (of) Iris
7. Decadent Perfuming
Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

By Cheryl Krueger

Summary

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Krueger
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781487546557
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-4655-7
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: University of Toronto Romance Series; University of Toronto Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories