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The foul and the fragrant: odor and the French social imagination

Corbin, Alain.

Year: 1986.

Publisher: Berg.

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Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE The Perceptual Revolution or the Sense of Smell on Trial

1. Air and the Threat of the Putrid

2. The Extremes of Olfactory Vigilance

3. Social Emanations

4. Redefining the Intolerable

5. The New Calculus of Olfactory Pleasure

PART TWO Purifying Public Space

6. The Tactics of Deodorization

7. Odors and the Physiology of the Social Order

8. Policy and Pollution

PART THREE Smells, Symbols, and Social Representations

9. The Stench of the Poor

10. Domestic Atmospheres

11. The Perfumes of Intimacy

12. The Intoxicating Flask

13. "Laughter in a Bead of Sweat"

14. The Odors of Paris

CONCLUSION

NOTES

INDEX

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Title:

The foul and the fragrant : odor and the French social imagination Alain Corbin.

Author:

Corbin, Alain

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The foul and the fragrant : odor and the French social imagination Alain Corbin.
Corbin, Alain
Leamington Spa: Berg, 1986.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01290

Subject Headings:

• Smell -- Social aspects
• Odors -- Social aspects
• France -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• France -- Social conditions -- 19th century

Notes:

• Translation of: Le miasme et la jonquille.
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