Taste: A Literary HistoryYale University Press, 1 okt 2008 - 272 pagina's What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of taste serves to mediate aesthetic judgment and consumerism, gusto and snobbery, gastronomes and gluttons, vampires and vegetarians, as well as the philosophy and physiology of food.The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton’s model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities—a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth’s feeding mind, Lamb’s gastronomical essays, Byron’s cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics. |
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... British . 6. Food in literature . I. Title . PR408.T37G54 2005 820.9'3559 - dc22 2004058452 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and ...
... British . 6. Food in literature . I. Title . PR408.T37G54 2005 820.9'3559 - dc22 2004058452 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and ...
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... British Cultural Studies Working Group at the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley offered critical opportunities to work through parts of the book . I thank the Trustees of Boston University for permission to reprint " Keats's Nausea ...
... British Cultural Studies Working Group at the Univer- sity of California at Berkeley offered critical opportunities to work through parts of the book . I thank the Trustees of Boston University for permission to reprint " Keats's Nausea ...
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... British empiricist aesthetics at the outset of the eigh- teenth century its vocabulary was invoked in relation to the concept of taste. Taste, call it gustus, gusto, or goût (the Continent, after all, got there before the English), was ...
... British empiricist aesthetics at the outset of the eigh- teenth century its vocabulary was invoked in relation to the concept of taste. Taste, call it gustus, gusto, or goût (the Continent, after all, got there before the English), was ...
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... British empiricist philoso- phers discovered , a gap had opened up between the mind and the world of sensory reality , mediated only by the senses , which were themselves highly unreliable . How could one tell , for instance , whether ...
... British empiricist philoso- phers discovered , a gap had opened up between the mind and the world of sensory reality , mediated only by the senses , which were themselves highly unreliable . How could one tell , for instance , whether ...
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... British gastronomers would all look back to Johnson , whom Boswell described as " Jean Bull Philosophe , " discoursing on the affairs of the stomach as an urgent philosophical matter . “ Some people , ” declared Johnson in an oft ...
... British gastronomers would all look back to Johnson , whom Boswell described as " Jean Bull Philosophe , " discoursing on the affairs of the stomach as an urgent philosophical matter . “ Some people , ” declared Johnson in an oft ...
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4 Digesting Wordsworth | 68 |
5 Lambs LowUrban Taste | 88 |
Byron | 116 |
7 Keatss Nausea | 138 |
George IV | 160 |
Notes | 180 |
Index | 228 |
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