Scents and sensibility: Perfume in Victorian literary culture
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1428
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198701750.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198701750
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The first book to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, Scents and Sensibility reinstates the imagination?s hidden links with the historically neglected sense of smell as revealed in both poetry and prose. Funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and awarded a 2018 ESSE prize, this substantial interdisciplinary monograph examines an extensive range of key canonical and non-canonical texts with reference to the hitherto under-researched cultural and material history of Victorian perfume. Innovative scholarship, new archival sources, and intricate critical readings demonstrate the all-pervasive importance of fragrance to Victorian literature, with special reference to aestheticism and decadence.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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