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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England - A Social Sense (Paperback)
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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England - A Social Sense (Paperback)
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place
in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in
developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense
scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively
questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic
dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of
eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from
diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints,
consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how
individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from
paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study
challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell
in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization
and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett
demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's
asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of
uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between
the senses and society.
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