comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction /
Janice Carlisle.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-209) and index.
Smelling others -- Melancholic men -- Women of substance -- Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend.
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Who smells? Surveying nearly 80 novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, 'Common Scents' provides a reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter.
Common scents.
0195165098
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Melancholy in literature.
Odors in literature.
Smell in literature.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
Odeurs dans la littérature.
Odorat dans la littérature.
Roman anglais-- 19e siècle-- Histoire et critique.