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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... critical opportunities to work through parts of the book . I thank the Trustees of Boston University for permission to reprint " Keats's Nausea , ” an earlier version of which appeared in Studies in Romanticism ( 2001 ) , and Johns ...
... critical opportunities to work through parts of the book . I thank the Trustees of Boston University for permission to reprint " Keats's Nausea , ” an earlier version of which appeared in Studies in Romanticism ( 2001 ) , and Johns ...
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... critical lens on the eighteenth - century culture of taste and its defining fiction : the Man of Taste as a universal symbol for the self in society . Following the philosophical hierarchy of the senses was the hierarchy of the arts ...
... critical lens on the eighteenth - century culture of taste and its defining fiction : the Man of Taste as a universal symbol for the self in society . Following the philosophical hierarchy of the senses was the hierarchy of the arts ...
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... critical issues in the history of the novel accessi- ble through writers who have typically been considered outside it . The Metaphor of Taste The aesthetic field of vision and hearing may yield a vaguely ideal- immaterial subjectivity ...
... critical issues in the history of the novel accessi- ble through writers who have typically been considered outside it . The Metaphor of Taste The aesthetic field of vision and hearing may yield a vaguely ideal- immaterial subjectivity ...
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... critical approach occurs in the opening sentence of Joseph Addison's 1712 Spectator essay " On Taste " : " Gratian very often rec- ommends the fine Taste , as the utmost Perfection of an accomplished Man " ( SPT 3 : 527 ) . The ...
... critical approach occurs in the opening sentence of Joseph Addison's 1712 Spectator essay " On Taste " : " Gratian very often rec- ommends the fine Taste , as the utmost Perfection of an accomplished Man " ( SPT 3 : 527 ) . The ...
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... critically implicated too ) : it is a highly freighted philosophical concept with serious consequences for the creation of selves in society . Miltonic taste involves a moral as well as an epistemological component whereby to partake of ...
... critically implicated too ) : it is a highly freighted philosophical concept with serious consequences for the creation of selves in society . Miltonic taste involves a moral as well as an epistemological component whereby to partake of ...
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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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