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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... Digesting Wordsworth 68 5. Lamb's Low - Urban Taste 89 6. Taste Outraged : Byron 117 7 . Keats's Nausea 139 8 . The Gastronome and the Snob : George IV 160 Acknowledgments Like most books, this one is hardly the product. Notes 181 Index ...
... Digesting Wordsworth 68 5. Lamb's Low - Urban Taste 89 6. Taste Outraged : Byron 117 7 . Keats's Nausea 139 8 . The Gastronome and the Snob : George IV 160 Acknowledgments Like most books, this one is hardly the product. Notes 181 Index ...
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... digesting) mind, to Keats's experience of epic nausea. Confronting the metaphor of consumption in the field of representation, as this book will show, these writers perform their own critique of the Romantic ideology (conceived as a 2 ...
... digesting) mind, to Keats's experience of epic nausea. Confronting the metaphor of consumption in the field of representation, as this book will show, these writers perform their own critique of the Romantic ideology (conceived as a 2 ...
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... digestion and the circulation of the blood . " 13 However , the appetites to which the most meaning could be ascribed — and with which philosophers like Hobbes were most concerned — were the voluntary appetites for pleasure and their ...
... digestion and the circulation of the blood . " 13 However , the appetites to which the most meaning could be ascribed — and with which philosophers like Hobbes were most concerned — were the voluntary appetites for pleasure and their ...
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... digestive tract to the anal orifice , an organ of unsignifying emission opposed to the expression of taste . As Stanley ... digestion and nutrition by way of Jean Baptiste Van Helmont , Franciscus Sylvius , Thomas Willis , and other ...
... digestive tract to the anal orifice , an organ of unsignifying emission opposed to the expression of taste . As Stanley ... digestion and nutrition by way of Jean Baptiste Van Helmont , Franciscus Sylvius , Thomas Willis , and other ...
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... digestion . Yet , like the philosophical mystery of what it means to be human , the manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that digestion ...
... digestion . Yet , like the philosophical mystery of what it means to be human , the manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that digestion ...
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7 Keatss Nausea | 138 |
George IV | 160 |
Notes | 180 |
Index | 228 |
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