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Authors: Emily C. Friedman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-27 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture. Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory, yet to remember a smell
Smell in Eighteenth-Century England
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Pages: 288
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 scientif
Mother Goose Refigured
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Pages: 206
Authors: Christine A. Jones
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-07 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French an
Perfume
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Authors: Patrick Süskind
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An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris 'An astonishing tour de force both in
The Foul and the Fragrant
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Alain Corbin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures