List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Translations, Spelling, Editions, Illustrations, and
Previously Published Material
Introduction: Something in the Air
1. In a Violet Sillage
2. The Language of Flowers and Silent Things
3. Confused Words?
4. The Osmazome of Literature
5. Perfumed Letters
6. Smelling (of) Iris
7. Decadent Perfuming
Epilogue: Cooked Apples and Exotic Perfume
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cheryl Krueger is an associate professor in the
Department of French at the University of Virginia.
"With its wealth of original detail and analysis and its extensive bibliography, this book will be welcomed by French cultural historians and literary scholars as well as by those working in the growing research area of scent studies." - Anne Green, King’s College London (H-France Review)
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