Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction

by Janice Carlisle

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Who smells? Surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents provides a new reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. In depictions of comparative encounters, the commonplace meetings of everyday life, such fiction often registers the inequalities that distinguish one individual from another by marking one of them with a smell...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195165098

ISBN13:9780195165098

Release Date:February 2004

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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