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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... Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956–71). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The ...
... Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956–71). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The ...
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... manner that anticipates the kind of literary criticism that presumes to displace it. Other disciplinary communities, including histo- rians, anthropologists, economists, and sociologists, have recognized that the enormous cultural ...
... manner that anticipates the kind of literary criticism that presumes to displace it. Other disciplinary communities, including histo- rians, anthropologists, economists, and sociologists, have recognized that the enormous cultural ...
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... manners , taste was in many ways a middle - class affair targeted to producing " tasteful " subjects . 19 Economically , the middle ranks grew in importance from 1660 through 1760 , as the largest market for consumer goods was among ...
... manners , taste was in many ways a middle - class affair targeted to producing " tasteful " subjects . 19 Economically , the middle ranks grew in importance from 1660 through 1760 , as the largest market for consumer goods was among ...
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... manners . Dr. Samuel Johnson , despite his own infamous table manners , recognized the symbolic power of the dinner table as a site of social communion . Accord- ing to his biographer James Boswell , Johnson described it as a place " to ...
... manners . Dr. Samuel Johnson , despite his own infamous table manners , recognized the symbolic power of the dinner table as a site of social communion . Accord- ing to his biographer James Boswell , Johnson described it as a place " to ...
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... manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that digestion is “ one of the most important operations of the animal oeconomy , and most obvious ...
... manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that digestion is “ one of the most important operations of the animal oeconomy , and most obvious ...
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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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