Common scents : comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction / Janice Carlisle.
Who smells? Surveying nearly 80 novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, 'Common Scents' provides a reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Summary: | Who smells? Surveying nearly 80 novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, 'Common Scents' provides a reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198036968 0198036965 0195165098 9780195165098 1280533854 9781280533853 0195185811 9780195185812 1602569932 9781602569935 9786610533855 6610533857 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |