The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination

Herausgeber: Grand-Clément, Adeline; Lindner, Martin; Ribeyrol, Charlotte; Carlà-Uhink, Filippo

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also theatrical performance, museum exhibitions, advertising, television series, historical reenactment and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique.

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Produktdetails

• IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781350169722
• ISBN-10: 1350169722
• Artikelnr.: 62352928

Autorenporträt

Adeline Grand-Clément is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse 2 and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2016-2021), France. Charlotte Ribeyrol is Associate Professor at the Sorbonne in Paris and is a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2015-2022), France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Fragrant and the Foul: What did Antiquity Smell Like?
Adeline Grand-Clément, University of Toulouse 2 and the Institut
Universitaire de France, France and Charlotte Ribeyrol, Sorbonne University
and the Institut Universitaire de France, France
I What Smell is the Sacred? The Sensoriality of Antique Rituals
Chapter 1. ' "Unguent from a Carven Jar": Odour and Perfume in Arthur
Machen's The Hill of
Dreams (1907)'
Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Chapter 2. 'Incense and Perfumes for Isis. Sensorial Reconstruction of the
Pompeian Ritual of Isis in the Visual Arts'
Anna Guédon, University of Toulouse 2, France
II Gendered Smells and Bodies
Chapter 3. 'From Gorgons to Goop: Scent Therapy and the Smell of
Transformation in Antiquity and the Holistic Health Movement'
Margaret Day Elsner, University of the South in Sewanee, USA
Chapter 4. 'The smell of marble: Warmth and Sensuality of the Twenty-first
Century Classical Bodies'
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, University Lumière-Lyon, France and Tiphaine
Annabelle Besnard, University of Aix-Marseille, France
III Sensing Otherness from Canvas to Screen
Chapter 5. 'Sensing the Past: Sensory Stimuli in Nineteenth-Century
Depictions of Roman Baths'
Giacomo Savani, University of Leicester, UK
Chapter 6. 'Evoking Empathy: Smell in the 21st Century Reception of
Antiquity'
Kim Berdeen, Leiden University, The Netherlands
IV Recreating the Fragrance(s) of the Past
Chapter 7. 'Archiving the Intangible: Preserving Smells, Historic Perfumes
and Other Ways of Approaching the Scented Past'
Cecilia Bembibre, Institute for Sustainable Heritage at University College
London, UK
Chapter 8. 'The "Persistence" of an Ancient Perfume: the Rose of Paestum'
Giulia Corrente, University of Rome, Italy
Chapter 9. 'The Fragrance of Ancient Kyphi: An Experimental Workshop'
Amandine Declercq, University of Toulouse 2, France
V Re-enacting the Fragrance(s) of the Past
Chapter 10. '"Balsama et crocum per gradus theatri fluere iussit" (Vita
Hadr. 19,5)-The Contemporary Reception of Smells and Senses in the Roman
Theatre'
Raffaella Viccei, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Chapter 11. 'Incense on the grass. A "strongly perfumed" Libation bearers
(1999)'
Martina Treu, IULM University of Milan, Italy
Chapter 12. 'Untarnished Experiences? - Re-enactors and Their Appraisal of
Smell as Gateway into the Ancient World'
Martin Lindner, University of Göttingen, Germany
Envoi. '"Scratch and Sniff": Recovering and Rediscovering Roman Aroma'
Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham, UK
Notes
Bibliography
Index