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Perfume on the page in nineteenth-century France /

Krueger, Cheryl L.,

Perfume on the page in nineteenth-century France / Perfume on the page in 19th-century France Cheryl Krueger. - 1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations (some color). - University of Toronto romance series . - University of Toronto romance series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In a Violet Sillage -- The Language of Flowers and Silent Things -- Confused Words? -- The Osmazome of Literature -- Perfumed Letters -- Smelling (of) Iris -- Decadent Perfuming.

"Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odors. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman's scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled. Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways."--

1487546572 9781487546588 1487546580 9781487546571

22573/cats4667311 JSTOR

20230155499 can


1800-1899


French literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Perfumes in literature.
Odors in literature.
Smell in literature.
Women in literature.
French literature.
Odors in literature.
Perfumes in literature.
Smell in literature.
Women in literature.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

PQ283 / .K78 2023

840.9/353