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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... feasts of Paradise Regained because he has no hunger. As these works suggest, the Miltonic fall involves more than epistemological or moral errors of judgment: it also involves a kind of judgment inextricable from pleasure. That taste ...
... feasts of Paradise Regained because he has no hunger. As these works suggest, the Miltonic fall involves more than epistemological or moral errors of judgment: it also involves a kind of judgment inextricable from pleasure. That taste ...
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... feast a kind of dictatorial authority ; his taste becomes the standard of pickles and seasoning . " 27 Having a taste to distinguish between pickles and seasonings may seem a far cry from distinguishing among the finer shades of poetry ...
... feast a kind of dictatorial authority ; his taste becomes the standard of pickles and seasoning . " 27 Having a taste to distinguish between pickles and seasonings may seem a far cry from distinguishing among the finer shades of poetry ...
Pagina 10
... feasts at Carlton House and the equally large Louis XVI was caricatured as eating his way toward the border on his flight from France , arrested in the act of eating pig's feet.33 “ Those so - called festive entertainments ( feasting ...
... feasts at Carlton House and the equally large Louis XVI was caricatured as eating his way toward the border on his flight from France , arrested in the act of eating pig's feet.33 “ Those so - called festive entertainments ( feasting ...
Pagina 15
... Feast " in Tom Jones ( 1749 ) , Henry Fielding observed that the novelist " ought to consider himself , not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat , but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary , at which all persons ...
... Feast " in Tom Jones ( 1749 ) , Henry Fielding observed that the novelist " ought to consider himself , not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat , but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary , at which all persons ...
Pagina 22
... feast , containing every delicacy in and out of season . The very “ names ” of the viands , he says , were " exquisite . " And in Paradise Lost , Eve is not only described as being skilful in paradisaical cookery ( “ tempering dulcet ...
... feast , containing every delicacy in and out of season . The very “ names ” of the viands , he says , were " exquisite . " And in Paradise Lost , Eve is not only described as being skilful in paradisaical cookery ( “ tempering dulcet ...
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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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