Grease and sweat: Race and smell in Eighteenth-Century English culture.
Journal article
Authors | Tullett, William |
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Abstract | From 1690 to 1800 texts printed in England linked racial difference and foul odour through understandings of occupation, food, cosmetics and sweat. Even by the end of the eighteenth-century racial odour was represented as a labile, culturally and environmentally determined characteristic. This article traces how the social ‘use’ of olfactory stereotypes, particularly their links with cosmetics, food, and odorous spaces, determined the mobilization of explanations for and attitudes to racial scent. It argues that ideas of race should not be considered monolithic or described in terms of narratives that posit a divide between the body/culture, but that racial stereotypes should be understood as collections of traits, of which smell was one, with distinctive histories. |
Keywords | Racism; Eighteenth century; Race; Early modern; Body; Cultural history; History; Space; Smell; Senses |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | Cultural and Social History |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 14780038 |
14780046 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2016.1202008 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622954 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/622954 | |
Publication dates | 04 Jul 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 Sep 2018, 09:09 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to Cultural and Social History |
Contributors | King's College London and History Department, King’s College London |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/948x5/grease-and-sweat-race-and-smell-in-eighteenth-century-english-culture
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