Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France

by Cheryl Krueger

Book Overview

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 odours. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487546564
• ISBN13: 9781487546564
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher