The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

Type

Book

Authors

Alain Corbin

ISBN 10

0674311752

ISBN 13

9780674311756

Tags

Americas, France, World, Biological Sciences, Customs & Traditions, Europe, Biology & Life Sciences, Social Sciences

Description

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. - from Amzon

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