Cheryl Krueger's new book, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-century France is out in paperback, hardcover, and e-book. Drawing on a wealth of resources,  this study explores how fiction and related writing on olfaction meet, permeate, and illuminate one another. Krueger examines medical tracts, letters, manuscripts, posters, print advertisements, magazine articles, perfume manuals, etiquette books, interviews, and encounters with fragrant materials themselves. The book shows how the olfactory language of a novel or poem conveys the distinctiveness of a text, its unique relationship to language, its style, and its ways of engaging the reader: its signature scent. Shedding light on the French perfume culture that we know today, Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France follows the scent trails that ultimately challenge us to read perfume and literature in new ways.

You can read more about the book and see some early reviews here:

https://utorontopress.com/9781487546571/perfume-on-the-page-in-nineteenth-century-france/

Click here for an interview with the author on the UTP blog:

https://utorontopress.com/blog/2023/08/16/qa-interview-with-utp-author-cheryl-krueger/