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Perfume on the page in nineteenth-century France / Cheryl Krueger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: University of Toronto romance seriesPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1487546572
  • 9781487546588
  • 1487546580
  • 9781487546571
Other title:
  • Perfume on the page in 19th-century France
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perfume on the page in nineteenth-century France.DDC classification:
  • 840.9/353 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ283 .K78 2023
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources:
Contents:
In a Violet Sillage -- The Language of Flowers and Silent Things -- Confused Words? -- The Osmazome of Literature -- Perfumed Letters -- Smelling (of) Iris -- Decadent Perfuming.
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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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."-- Provided by publisher.

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