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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... Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976). Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein ...
... Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976). Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein ...
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... letters from May 27 , 1796 , through October 1817 . Ernest De Selincourt , ed . , The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth : The Middle Years , 2nd edition Mary Moorman ( Oxford : Clarendon , 1970 ) . Edmund Burke , A Philosophical ...
... letters from May 27 , 1796 , through October 1817 . Ernest De Selincourt , ed . , The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth : The Middle Years , 2nd edition Mary Moorman ( Oxford : Clarendon , 1970 ) . Edmund Burke , A Philosophical ...
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... letters addressed to the Morning Post in December 1844 protest the “ rash assault " of the English railway into the Lake District and encourage " all persons of taste " to join him in denouncing the threat ( PW 3 : 339 ) . Together ...
... letters addressed to the Morning Post in December 1844 protest the “ rash assault " of the English railway into the Lake District and encourage " all persons of taste " to join him in denouncing the threat ( PW 3 : 339 ) . Together ...
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... letter to Leonard Philaras , he records : “ It is ten years , I think , more or less , since I noticed my sight becoming weak and growing dim , and at the same time my spleen and all my viscera burdened and shaken with flatulence 30 ...
... letter to Leonard Philaras , he records : “ It is ten years , I think , more or less , since I noticed my sight becoming weak and growing dim , and at the same time my spleen and all my viscera burdened and shaken with flatulence 30 ...
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... letter R very hard : " wretched " becomes " retched . " 47 Because Satan's self - devouring egotism will not allow him to eat outward , to partake of the Word expressed as a monist world , he becomes an unincor- porable lump , a ...
... letter R very hard : " wretched " becomes " retched . " 47 Because Satan's self - devouring egotism will not allow him to eat outward , to partake of the Word expressed as a monist world , he becomes an unincor- porable lump , a ...
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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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