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Common scents : comparative encounters in high-Victorian fiction

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
eBook, English, 2004
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004
Electronic books
1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) : illustrations
9780198036968, 9780195165098, 9781280533853, 9780195185812, 9781602569935, 9786610533855, 0198036965, 0195165098, 1280533854, 0195185811, 1602569932, 6610533857
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Smelling others
Melancholic men
Women of substance
Treating the melancholic of Our mutual friend
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