TY - BOOK AU - Krueger,Cheryl L. TI - Perfume on the page in nineteenth-century France T2 - University of Toronto romance series SN - 1487546572 AV - PQ283 .K78 2023 U1 - 840.9/353 23 PY - 2023///] CY - Toronto, Buffalo PB - University of Toronto Press KW - French literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Perfumes in literature KW - Odors in literature KW - Smell in literature KW - Women in literature KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "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."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3638453 ER -