Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense

by William Tullett

Book Overview

In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198844131
• ISBN13: 9780198844136
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"