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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Pagina 1
... qualities of beauty and to pro- nounce exact judgments of taste , the Romantic gourmand worked with equal aesthetic imperative to distinguish among different flavors of food.∞ Yet I 1. Aesthetics and Appetites: An Introduction.
... qualities of beauty and to pro- nounce exact judgments of taste , the Romantic gourmand worked with equal aesthetic imperative to distinguish among different flavors of food.∞ Yet I 1. Aesthetics and Appetites: An Introduction.
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... beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from those of brutes . Human beings may be taxonomized as Homo sapiens , but in the eighteenth century the man of reason was really only half the story of ...
... beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from those of brutes . Human beings may be taxonomized as Homo sapiens , but in the eighteenth century the man of reason was really only half the story of ...
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... beauty was a mental compulsion amounting to law , or that it is “ a taste which governs men ” ( C 413 ) . Similarly , Hume defined the standard of taste as the " joint verdict " of all ideal critics , assured that beauties " maintain ...
... beauty was a mental compulsion amounting to law , or that it is “ a taste which governs men ” ( C 413 ) . Similarly , Hume defined the standard of taste as the " joint verdict " of all ideal critics , assured that beauties " maintain ...
Pagina 13
... beauty entailed more than physical sensation . It had to involve an element of cognition , or there could be no meaning ascribed to it- no standard , no prin- ciples , nothing beyond physical instinct . In his “ Preface to Lyrical ...
... beauty entailed more than physical sensation . It had to involve an element of cognition , or there could be no meaning ascribed to it- no standard , no prin- ciples , nothing beyond physical instinct . In his “ Preface to Lyrical ...
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... beauty and flaws in all the arts . ” 59 More recently , Remy G. Saisselin claims that in mid seventeenth - century France , the je ne sais quoi came to stand for the inexplicability of aesthetic experience in the field of the fine arts ...
... beauty and flaws in all the arts . ” 59 More recently , Remy G. Saisselin claims that in mid seventeenth - century France , the je ne sais quoi came to stand for the inexplicability of aesthetic experience in the field of the fine arts ...
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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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