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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... Nature ; Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1830 ) , trans . A. V. Miller ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1970 ) . William Wordsworth , The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed . Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. ...
... Nature ; Being Part Two of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1830 ) , trans . A. V. Miller ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1970 ) . William Wordsworth , The Prelude : 1799 , 1805 , 1850 , ed . Jonathan Wordsworth , M. H. ...
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... natural cravings for virtue , beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from ... Nature were naturally consubstantial with efforts of comparative anatomists to distinguish the animal economy of ...
... natural cravings for virtue , beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from ... Nature were naturally consubstantial with efforts of comparative anatomists to distinguish the animal economy of ...
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... natural , " the " animal , " and the " voluntary " ( or “ intel- lective " ) . As J. B. Bamborough explains , natural appetite was " the tendency of things to move according to their nature , " and " Sensitive or Animal Appetite was the ...
... natural , " the " animal , " and the " voluntary " ( or “ intel- lective " ) . As J. B. Bamborough explains , natural appetite was " the tendency of things to move according to their nature , " and " Sensitive or Animal Appetite was the ...
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... nature and its ability to be refined . 16 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees , published in 1714 and expanded in 1723 as a more direct response to Shaftesbury , shocked its readers as a consumerist legacy of Hobbes . Man- deville also ...
... nature and its ability to be refined . 16 Mandeville's Fable of the Bees , published in 1714 and expanded in 1723 as a more direct response to Shaftesbury , shocked its readers as a consumerist legacy of Hobbes . Man- deville also ...
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... Nature ( 1830 ) , " the stomach and intestinal canal are themselves nothing else but the outer skin , only reversed ... natural philosophy , sensibility was conceptually involved in the extended economy of digestion . Yet , like the ...
... Nature ( 1830 ) , " the stomach and intestinal canal are themselves nothing else but the outer skin , only reversed ... natural philosophy , sensibility was conceptually involved in the extended economy of digestion . Yet , like the ...
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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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