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 1
... palate to be the pinnacle of aesthetic appreciation . Various " committees of taste " established in early nineteenth- century Britain elevated food to the status of the fine arts , adopting the same juridical language and concern with ...
... palate to be the pinnacle of aesthetic appreciation . Various " committees of taste " established in early nineteenth- century Britain elevated food to the status of the fine arts , adopting the same juridical language and concern with ...
Pagina 8
... palate only choose , the choicest meat , When the whole carp with pleasure you cou'd eat.22 These lines express a precept still in effect today : one does not sit down in polite society with the brawny appetite of a barbarian . To ...
... palate only choose , the choicest meat , When the whole carp with pleasure you cou'd eat.22 These lines express a precept still in effect today : one does not sit down in polite society with the brawny appetite of a barbarian . To ...
Pagina 9
... palate is gradually adapted to the taste of his cook ; whereas . . . in trying by a wider range , I can more exquisitely judge . " 28 As a public forum for exercising taste , Johnson preferred the tavern ( the British forerunner of the ...
... palate is gradually adapted to the taste of his cook ; whereas . . . in trying by a wider range , I can more exquisitely judge . " 28 As a public forum for exercising taste , Johnson preferred the tavern ( the British forerunner of the ...
Pagina 13
... palate , and I pass judgement according to their verdict . ( not according to universal principles ) " ( CJ 140 ) . There may be no disputing a gustatory taste for food , but the extensive amount of disputation about taste in the ...
... palate , and I pass judgement according to their verdict . ( not according to universal principles ) " ( CJ 140 ) . There may be no disputing a gustatory taste for food , but the extensive amount of disputation about taste in the ...
Pagina 19
... Palate , " and " Con- fessions of a Drunkard ” develop this persona as a flesh - loving gourmand , but “ A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig " reveals the degree to which Lamb's unique style of comic melancholy is physiologically seated in ...
... Palate , " and " Con- fessions of a Drunkard ” develop this persona as a flesh - loving gourmand , but “ A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig " reveals the degree to which Lamb's unique style of comic melancholy is physiologically seated in ...
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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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