Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction
by
Janice Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Who smells? Surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents provides a new reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. In depictions of comparative encounters, the commonplace...