The Foul and the Fragrant

¸±±êÌâ: Odor and the French Social Imagination

ISBN: 9780674311763

³ö°æÉç: Harvard University Press

³ö°æÄê: 1988

Ò³Êý: 320

¶¨¼Û: USD 34.00

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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.