{"product_id":"perfume-on-the-page-in-nineteenthcentury-france-9781487546564","title":"Perfume on the Page in NineteenthCentury France","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wealth of resources, \u003ci\u003ePerfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and Previously Published Material   Introduction: Something in the Air   1. In a Violet Sillage 2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things 3. Confused Words? 4. The Osmazome of Literature 5. Perfumed Letters 6. Smelling (of) Iris 7. Decadent Perfuming   Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume   Notes Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409165590871,"sku":"9781487546564","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487546564.jpg?v=1730505715","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perfume-on-the-page-in-nineteenthcentury-france-9781487546564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}