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The Macaroni's ‘Ambrosial Essences’: Perfume, Identity and Public Space in Eighteenth-Century England

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:30 authored by William Tullett
The male antitype of the macaroni and the space of the pleasure gardens in which he reputedly existed have been primarily understood in terms of vision. This article seeks to re‐integrate other senses, particularly olfaction, into our understanding of these subjects. Sounds and smells, of individuals and urban spaces, undermined the idea of the pleasure garden as an enclosed space and the cultivation of the senses it attempted to encourage. The macaroni and his perfumes were an extreme example of this, linking the pleasure garden to the perfumer's shop and disrupting understandings of bodily comportment, masculinity and the proper use of the senses.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

38

Issue number

2

Page range

163-180

Publication title

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

ISSN

1754-0208

Publisher

Wiley

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  • other

Legacy posted date

2018-12-06

Legacy creation date

2018-12-05

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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Available at: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-macaronis-ambrosial-essences-perfume-identity-and-public-space-in-eighteenthcentury-england(69eaadb1-6313-466c-aab6-3b33e9a7c41c).html

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