The Foul and the Fragrant Odor and the French Social Imagination |
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Author:
| Corbin, Alain |
Translator:
| Kochan, Miriam L. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-31176-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1988 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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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 up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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 up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odors of city cesspools--exercised over the lives (and deaths) of the French in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.