
Author/Contributor(s): | Tullett, William |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 10/27/2021 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
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.