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.
The Foul and the Fragrant
Odor and the French Social Imagination
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$32.50 • £24.95 • €29.30
ISBN 9780674311763
Publication: January 1988
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