Sniff: A History of Smells
Autor Will Tulletten Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 oct 2026
Across vast periods of time and around the globe, smell has been central to human life. From the incense burned in medieval religious rituals to the use of modern sniffer dogs, smells have been central to our sense of identity, our ability to build communities, and, perhaps less positively, to mark those deemed unwelcome within them. Our sense of smell brings us the pleasure of good food, wine, and perfume, but it also warns us of dangerous fire, gas, and rot.
What did the past smell like? Why does our own world smell the way it does?
Moving through key locations, from libraries to forests, churches to hospitals, Will Tullett explores the peculiar history of smell. We smell witchcraft and murder, fin de siècle Parisian theatres, and cinemas in 1960s New York. What emerges is not just a history of smells, but biographies of the many noses that have sniffed them.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300282597
ISBN-10: 0300282591
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 17 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300282591
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 17 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“A convincing case for paying more attention to the smells available to us with every breath. A diverting study of what the nose knows.”—Kirkus Reviews
"I'm with Dr Tullett and his marvellous tome on scents and sensibleness: 'Open your nose to smell. The more of it we can smell, the more of it we can save.'"—John Lewis-Stempel, Country Life
“Tullett invites us to follow our noses into history, discovering the fascinating stories behind smells past and present. This is a stunning book full of surprises and revelations—and always alive to the politics of scents and stinks across history and today.”—Catherine Clarke, author of A History of England in 25 Poems
“Sniff explores sensory landscapes, evoking newspaper ink, old books, and the chemical tang of new cars. This profound, sweeping history reveals how powerful scents have defined human experiences.”—Emily Cockayne, author of Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters
“A deeply researched, revelatory and hugely entertaining sensory odyssey. Sniff hopscotches nimbly across centuries and continents to take us to some wonderful and terrifying places—ancient Rome, medieval China, the Shakespearian stage, the Victorian city, the trenches of the Great War, a modern funeral home—and reveals the myriad ways that smells evoke danger, pleasure, memories, places, bodies, in fact are the very stuff of life. Brilliant.”—David Hendy, author of Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening
"I'm with Dr Tullett and his marvellous tome on scents and sensibleness: 'Open your nose to smell. The more of it we can smell, the more of it we can save.'"—John Lewis-Stempel, Country Life
“Tullett invites us to follow our noses into history, discovering the fascinating stories behind smells past and present. This is a stunning book full of surprises and revelations—and always alive to the politics of scents and stinks across history and today.”—Catherine Clarke, author of A History of England in 25 Poems
“Sniff explores sensory landscapes, evoking newspaper ink, old books, and the chemical tang of new cars. This profound, sweeping history reveals how powerful scents have defined human experiences.”—Emily Cockayne, author of Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters
“A deeply researched, revelatory and hugely entertaining sensory odyssey. Sniff hopscotches nimbly across centuries and continents to take us to some wonderful and terrifying places—ancient Rome, medieval China, the Shakespearian stage, the Victorian city, the trenches of the Great War, a modern funeral home—and reveals the myriad ways that smells evoke danger, pleasure, memories, places, bodies, in fact are the very stuff of life. Brilliant.”—David Hendy, author of Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening
Notă biografică
Will Tullett is a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of York. He is the author of Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: A Social Sense and Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives.