Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781611487527
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: "Reading Smell examines how far the novel, which is so often claimed to be a repository of modernity and changing mores, can be understood through a reintroduction of olfactory information. After decades of reading for all kinds of racial, cultural, gendered, and other sorts of absences back into the novel, this book takes one step further: to consider how the recovery of forgotten or overlooked olfactory assumptions might reshape our understanding of these texts."--