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Common Scents : Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (231 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198036968
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Common ScentsDDC classification:
  • 823/.809353
LOC classification:
  • PR878.O46C37 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Smelling Others -- 2. Melancholic Men -- 3. Women of Substance -- 4. Treating the Melancholic of Our Mutual Friend -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Who smells? After surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents explores the implications of such olfactory data in novels by Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Oliphant, Trollope, and Yonge. In doing so, it offers a new understanding of the self-evident values of high-Victorian culture.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Smelling Others -- 2. Melancholic Men -- 3. Women of Substance -- 4. Treating the Melancholic of Our Mutual Friend -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Who smells? After surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents explores the implications of such olfactory data in novels by Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Oliphant, Trollope, and Yonge. In doing so, it offers a new understanding of the self-evident values of high-Victorian culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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