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Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense: The Past and Present Book Series

Autor William Tullett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2021
In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in 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.
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ISBN-13: 9780192847454
ISBN-10: 0192847457
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria The Past and Present Book Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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an extremely impressive first book, which deserves to have a significant influence on its field, and on the practice of history more broadly
a tour de force ... Tullett's book is a really successful social and cultural history of how those distinctions were exploited and used to express other sorts of distinctions between people. It's very much about identities and the body.
Odor history is presented here convincingly as an integral part of a broad social history. So no further "hyphen story", but an innovative approach to questions about body concepts, sociability, space, gender, materiality, consumption or even politics and religion. Tullett's pointed theses offer enormous potential for connection and contradiction.

Notă biografică

William Tullett is a Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London, King's College London, and the University of Derby. He held a Past and Present postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. He works on the social and cultural history of England between 1650 and 1850 and especially histories of the senses, emotions, and materiality.