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The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination Book

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The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination, In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquit, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
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  • The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
  • Written by author Alain Corbin
  • Published by Harvard University Press, 1986/07/01
  • In a book whose insight and originality have already had a dazzling impact in France, Alain Corbin has put the sense of smell on the historical map. He conjures up the dominion that the combined forces of smells--from the seductress's civet to the ubiquit
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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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