Decadent Perfume: Under the Skin and Through the Page

<p>At the fin de siècle, there is  tendency in learned discourse to discredit the salubrious properties of fragrance, and more radically, to deem perfume use potentially toxic and aberrant. It is as if suspicion of perfume supplanted the fear of miasma (smell-borne contagion) as an olfactive i...

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Main Author: Cheryl Krueger
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Liverpool University Press 2014-10-01
Series:Modern Languages Open
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Online Access:http://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/index.php/mlo/article/view/36