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The Foul and the Fragrant

Odor and the French Social Imagination

The Foul and the Fragrant( )
Author: Corbin, Alain
Translator: Kochan, Miriam L.
ISBN:978-0-674-31176-3
Publication Date:Jan 1988
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $65.00
Book Description:

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.

Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Science / Chemistry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.6 x 22.3 x 1.83 cm
Book Weight:0.456 Kilograms



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