Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “To Rub the Nose in the Tea”: Smell, Taste, and the Assessment of Quality in Early Nineteenth-Century Tea Retail

Chapter 3 An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop

Chapter 4 The Politics of Sitting Down: Women, Cafés and Public Toilets in Dublin

Chapter 5 Comfort and Safety: An Intersensorial History of Shopping Streets in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam and Brussels

Chapter 6 The Cry of Silk: Erotomania and Fetishism in Au Bonheur des Dames

Chapter 7 “Behind the Scenes of a Retail Shop”: Sensory Experiences of Living-In, c. 1880s–1920s

Chapter 8 Synergy and Dissonance of the Senses: Negotiating Fashion Through Second-Hand Dealing, Jumble Sales and Street Market Trading in 1930s East End London

Chapter 9 “A Seductive Weapon … a Necessary Luxury”: Shopping for ‘Designer Perfume’ During the Interwar Period

Chapter 10 Be My Baby: Sensory Difference and Youth Identity in British Fashion Retail, 1945–1970