Perfume On The Page In Nineteenth Century France

Author : Cheryl L. Krueger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023
Category : French literature
ISBN : 1487546580

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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-century France by Cheryl L. Krueger Pdf

"Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odors. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman's scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled. Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways."--

Author : Cheryl Krueger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487546571

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Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France by Cheryl Krueger Pdf

Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France’s nineteenth-century literature has gained praise for its memorable evocation of odours. As French perfume was industrialized, democratized, cosmeticized, and feminized in the nineteenth century, stories of fragrant scent trails aligned perfume with toxic behaviour and viewed a woman’s scent as something alluring, but also something to be controlled. Drawing on a wealth of resources, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. The book examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. Cheryl Krueger explores how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways.

Author : Carol de Dobay Rifelj
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130997

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Coiffures by Carol de Dobay Rifelj Pdf

Examines nineteenth-century hairstyles and their cultural associations, and analyzes the social and symbolic roles that hair played in literary representations of the new body ideal of the era in fashion magazines, and as clues to social status, sexual availability and character in the fiction of major French authors including Baudelaire, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola.

Author : David S. Barnes
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780801888731

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The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs by David S. Barnes Pdf

The scientific and social history surrounding the 1880 incident of a foul odor in Paris and the development of public health culture that followed. Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years later—when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink—the public conversation about health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread disease. Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during the heyday of the Bacteriological Revolution. Despite its many innovations, however, the new science of germs did not entirely sweep away the older “sanitarian” view of public health. The longstanding conviction that disease could be traced to filthy people, places, and substances remained strong, even as it was translated into the language of bacteriology. Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and “civilize” the peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public’s ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances. “A well-developed study in medically related social history, it tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.” —New England Journal of Medicine “Both a captivating story and a sophisticated historical study. Kudos to Barnes for this valuable and insightful book that both physicians and historians will enjoy.” —Journal of the American Medical Association

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011233072

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The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin Pdf

At once encyclopedic and impressionistic, The Foul and the Fragrant is a masterful exposition of odors and the perception of odors from 1750 to the 'Pasteurian revolution' of the late nineteenth century. It is an important and, at times, fascinating voyage... Exploring with imagination and audacity the changing role of smell in the anxieties and antagonisms of the modern world, Corbin reminds us that social history, too long sanitized and too often abstract, must make room for the senses.

Author : Richard Howard Stamelman
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : IND:30000109965180

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Author : Anne E. Linton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009063012

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Unmaking Sex by Anne E. Linton Pdf

During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations only to have them later reversed by colleagues. While medical experts fought over what separated a man from a woman, novelists began to explore debates about binary sex and describe the experiences of gender-ambiguous characters. Anne Linton discusses over 200 newly-uncovered case studies while offering fresh readings of literature by several famous writers of the period, as well as long-overlooked popular fiction. This landmark contribution to the history of sexuality is the first book to examine intersex in both medicine and literature, sensitively relating historical 'hermaphrodism' to contemporary intersex activism and scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000713562

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The Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:E0000218230

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Outlook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Irene Palmer
Publisher : eFortune US
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Perfume, Soap and Candle Making - The Beginner’s Guide by Irene Palmer Pdf

Are you paying too much for gourmet perfumes, soaps and candles? What if you could create your own designer fragrances that suit your persona? Sound difficult? It's easier than you think. As you carefully scan each and every word of this page, you will begin to discover a new revolutionary method of designing your own, personal perfumes. Then, learn how to incorporate that scent into personalized soaps and candles! Isn't it about time you took control and created your very own scents? You can do it quickly and easily with The Beginners Guide to Perfume, Soap and Candle Making. Despite what you may have heard, it isn't that hard especially when the information is provided in such an easy to read guide. Part One Teaches You How to Create Your Very Own Scent Part Two Is All About Soap Making Part Three Teaches You Candle Making

Author : Clive Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000350845

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Nineteenth-Century Design by Clive Edwards Pdf

This is volume one in a four-volume edition of primary source materials that document the histories of design across the long nineteenth century. Each volume is arranged by appropriate sub-themes and it is the first set of primary sources to be gathered together in this comprehensive and accessible format. Design refers to more than simply products and personalities or even cultural ideas, it involves consideration of ways of design thinking and applications as well as the philosophies and the other disciplines that impinge upon it. Here, the first volume discusses the theories and discourses that underpinned nineteenth-century design, ranging from design reform to aesthetics, and from the question of ornament to design education. The volumes will be of interest to a range of scholars and students, including those in art and design history, visual culture, and nineteenth-century material culture. They will also be of interest to a broad range of scholars working in areas including aesthetics, gender, politics and philosophy.

Author : Kari Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Animals and civilization
ISBN : 9780226686370

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Precarious Partners by Kari Weil Pdf

"Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable dream, not just for soldiers, but for middle-class (bourgeois) boys and girls. It charts the rise of the horse as an integral part of daily life in Paris (as work, sport, and food) and the social, political, and affective changes that brought about and followed from the presence of horses on streets and in parks, in the show ring and race track, and even on plates. It also ably traces a rise in "equestrian rhetoric," whose sexual, class, and racial inflections were influenced both by Anglomania and by colonialist attraction to the "hot-blooded" horses of Arab countries. Moving between literature, painting, natural philosophy, popular cartoons, sport manuals, and tracts of public hygiene, this book seeks to understand the changing relations to horses who straddled conceptions of pet and livestock, existing between objects of affection, on the one hand, and material as well as symbolic capital, on the other"--

Author : Jennifer Rushworth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843844563

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Petrarch and the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-century France by Jennifer Rushworth Pdf

A consideration of Petrarch's influence on, and appearance in, French texts - and in particular, his appropriation by the Avignonese.

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191609619

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Beauty Imagined by Geoffrey Jones Pdf

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.

Author : Theresa Levitt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674293076

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Elixir by Theresa Levitt Pdf

A story of alchemy in Bohemian Paris, where two scientific outcasts discovered a fundamental distinction between natural and synthetic chemicals that inaugurated an enduring scientific mystery. For centuries, scientists believed that living matter possessed a special quality—a spirit or essence—that differentiated it from nonliving matter. But by the nineteenth century, the scientific consensus was that the building blocks of one were identical to the building blocks of the other. Elixir tells the story of two young chemists who were not convinced, and how their work rewrote the boundary between life and nonlife. In the 1830s, Édouard Laugier and Auguste Laurent were working in Laugier Père et Fils, the oldest perfume house in Paris. By day they prepared the perfumery’s revitalizing elixirs and rejuvenating eaux, drawing on alchemical traditions that equated a plant’s vitality with its aroma. In their spare time they hunted the vital force that promised to reveal the secret to life itself. Their ideas, roundly condemned by established chemists, led to the discovery of structural differences between naturally occurring molecules and their synthetic counterparts, even when the molecules were chemically identical. Scientists still can’t explain this anomaly, but it may point to critical insights concerning the origins of life on Earth. Rich in sparks and smells, brimming with eccentric characters, experimental daring, and the romance of the Bohemian salon, Elixir is a fascinating cultural and scientific history.