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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... line number is from this edition. John Keats, The Letters of John Keats. 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958). John Keats, Keats's Paradise Lost, ed. Beth Lau (Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 1998) ...
... line number is from this edition. John Keats, The Letters of John Keats. 2 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958). John Keats, Keats's Paradise Lost, ed. Beth Lau (Gainseville: University Press of Florida, 1998) ...
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... line number for other PN PRL PT PW R SP SPP SPT SPW TBP THH THN poems . Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Philosophy of Nature ; Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1830 ) , trans . A. V. Miller ( Oxford ...
... line number for other PN PRL PT PW R SP SPP SPT SPW TBP THH THN poems . Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Philosophy of Nature ; Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1830 ) , trans . A. V. Miller ( Oxford ...
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... lines express a precept still in effect today : one does not sit down in polite society with the brawny appetite of a barbarian . To display hunger at all on such occasions is to risk disqualifying oneself from tasteful society . “ Hun ...
... lines express a precept still in effect today : one does not sit down in polite society with the brawny appetite of a barbarian . To display hunger at all on such occasions is to risk disqualifying oneself from tasteful society . “ Hun ...
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... line with that of contemporary conduct books treating the bourgeois dinner party . As Daniel Pool explains , dinner parties were given inordinate attention in Euro- pean " etiquette books for the upwardly anxious , perhaps with good ...
... line with that of contemporary conduct books treating the bourgeois dinner party . As Daniel Pool explains , dinner parties were given inordinate attention in Euro- pean " etiquette books for the upwardly anxious , perhaps with good ...
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... lines up with another ranked pair of concepts not yet mentioned ; the elevation of male over female and with ' masculine ' traits over those designated ' feminine . ” " 43 To gain knowledge and transcend the senses was to make ( or keep ) ...
... lines up with another ranked pair of concepts not yet mentioned ; the elevation of male over female and with ' masculine ' traits over those designated ' feminine . ” " 43 To gain knowledge and transcend the senses was to make ( or keep ) ...
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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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aesthetic taste animal appetite arts beauty Bernard Mandeville bodily body bread British Burke Burke's Byron Cambridge cannibalism carnivorous century Charles Lamb civilizing Clarendon Press Coleridge connoisseur consumer consumerism critical critique culinary diet digestion dinner Don Juan dregs E. V. Lucas economy of consumption Edax eighteenth-century Elia England English Essay Fall of Hyperion feast feeding mind flesh flesh-eating French Freud gastronomical George Grimod gustatory gusto Harold Bloom human Hume hunger ideal James Gillray John Keats Keats's Lakes Lamb's letter London low-urban taste Mandeville Mandeville's meal Medusa metaphor middle-class Milton moral nature nineteenth-century object organ Oxford palate Paradise Lost Paradise Regained philosophical physiology pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Prelude Roast Pig Romantic Romanticism Satan satire sense sexual Shaftesbury Shelley shipwreck smell Snowdon social society stomach sublime symbolic economy Thomas tion trans University Press vampire vegetarian vols William words Wordsworth writes York