Scents And Sensibility: Perfume In Victorian Literary Culture

Explores Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses. A selection of poems, essays, and fiction, exploring these texts with reference to both the little-known cultural history of perfume use and the appreciation of natural fragrance in Victorian Britain. It shows how scent and perfume are used to convey not merely moods and atmospheres but the nuances of the aesthete or decadent's carefully cultivated identity, personality, or sensibility.

• | Author: Catherine Maxwell
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 26, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Collections
• | ISBN-10: 0198701756
• | ISBN-13: 9780198701750