The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the Social Imagination - Brossura

Corbin, Alain

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330329308 ISBN 13: 9780330329309

Casa editrice: Picador, 1994

Riassunto

Attempting to put the sense of smell on the historical map, the author of this book conveys the power that smells - from the seductress's civet to the ubiquitous excremental odours of city cesspools - exercized over the lives (and deaths) of Frenchmen in the 18th and 19th centuries. Integrating an impressive range of disciplines - the histories of science and medicine, urban studies, public health, psychohistory, and literary criticism - Corbin lays bare the deeper implications of smell for science, society, and literature.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0330329308
• ISBN 13: 9780330329309
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320