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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Pagina 3
... matter of individual choice, and the so-called Man of Taste had to navigate an increasing tide of consumables, seeking distinction through the exercise of discrimination.∂ An overdetermined, multivalenced concept, consumption is ...
... matter of individual choice, and the so-called Man of Taste had to navigate an increasing tide of consumables, seeking distinction through the exercise of discrimination.∂ An overdetermined, multivalenced concept, consumption is ...
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... matter . " 7 The empirical tradition that grew up in his wake of course had much more ( if not better ) thought on the matter . Ernst Cassirer argues that the central project of Enlightenment humanism was to characterize the essence of ...
... matter . " 7 The empirical tradition that grew up in his wake of course had much more ( if not better ) thought on the matter . Ernst Cassirer argues that the central project of Enlightenment humanism was to characterize the essence of ...
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... matter and motions involved the parallel rhetorical project of sublimating taste from the conceptual apparatus of appetite . As Burke remarked in his 1759 “ Introduction on Taste , ” “ if Taste has no fixed principles , if the imagina ...
... matter and motions involved the parallel rhetorical project of sublimating taste from the conceptual apparatus of appetite . As Burke remarked in his 1759 “ Introduction on Taste , ” “ if Taste has no fixed principles , if the imagina ...
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... matter . “ Some people , ” declared Johnson in an oft - repeated flourish , “ have a foolish way of not minding , or pretending not to mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I ...
... matter . “ Some people , ” declared Johnson in an oft - repeated flourish , “ have a foolish way of not minding , or pretending not to mind , what they eat . For my part , I mind my belly very studiously , and very carefully ; for I ...
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... matter in the stomach is conducted by pipes , as by the bowels of the animal , to the anus , where there is a sphincter that allows it to exit . " 41 Those physicians who judged humans by their physiological evacuations found a ...
... matter in the stomach is conducted by pipes , as by the bowels of the animal , to the anus , where there is a sphincter that allows it to exit . " 41 Those physicians who judged humans by their physiological evacuations found 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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