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The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
Holly Dugan
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Description for The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
Hardback. Dugan's inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic. Num Pages: 280 pages, 15, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents-incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited-churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury ... Read more
In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents-incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited-churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421402345
SKU
V9781421402345
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About Holly Dugan
Holly Dugan is an assistant professor of English literature at the George Washington University.
Reviews for The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England
"A wonderful piece of work that will engage a wide readership. The subject of scent is central to so many attitudes and opinions in early modern culture, and Dugan does a splendid job of reminding us of its importance to canonical and noncanonical works. I know of nothing quite like this book." (Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan)"