The Foul and the Fragrant Odor and the French Social Imagination |
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| Author:
| Corbin, Alain |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-31175-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1986 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $37.50 |
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.