My article on scent in the paintings of J.W.Waterhouse and Charles Courtney Curran

I hope you will enjoy reading an article I published in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide entitled "Wicked with Roses": Floral Femininity and the Erotics of Scent" In it I explore nineteenth-century constructions of femininity by looking at the motif of women inhaling floral fragrance in British painting and visual culture, from about 1880 to 1910.

You can find it at:

http://19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144:qwicked-with-rosesq-floral-femininity-and-the-erotics-of-scent&catid=46:spring07article&Itemid=68

I would love to have your comments and feedback as this material is being revised for my forthcoming book Scented Visions: Art and the Olfactory, 1880 - 1910, on the role of scent in Nineteenth-century Art and Aesthetics

I have new publications coming out and will keep you posted.