Taste: A Literary HistoryYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 272 من الصفحات 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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... 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 grounded in the power of metaphor, and it is ...
... 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 grounded in the power of metaphor, and it is ...
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... called cuisines: ''Humans are virtually the only creatures in the world that observe rules about what is eaten, how it is prepared, and with whom it is to be eaten. The only other animals that do anything remotely approximate are the ...
... called cuisines: ''Humans are virtually the only creatures in the world that observe rules about what is eaten, how it is prepared, and with whom it is to be eaten. The only other animals that do anything remotely approximate are the ...
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... called appetite, or desire; the later, being the generall name; and the other, often-times restrayned to signifie the Desire of Food, namely Hunger and Thirst''; by contrast, ''when the Endeavour is fromward something, it is generally ...
... called appetite, or desire; the later, being the generall name; and the other, often-times restrayned to signifie the Desire of Food, namely Hunger and Thirst''; by contrast, ''when the Endeavour is fromward something, it is generally ...
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... . . the psychological and material arena in which the elections of what has been called the 'politics of signification' were contested.''≤∞ Whereas the animal pleasures of eating demand appetite, Aesthetics and Appetite 7.
... . . the psychological and material arena in which the elections of what has been called the 'politics of signification' were contested.''≤∞ Whereas the animal pleasures of eating demand appetite, Aesthetics and Appetite 7.
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... called festive entertainments (feasting and gorging),'' Kant says of aristocratic excess, are incommensurate with middle-class ideals of politeness and by the 1790s are ''pretty much in bad taste'' (AN 187). Writing to his patron and ...
... called festive entertainments (feasting and gorging),'' Kant says of aristocratic excess, are incommensurate with middle-class ideals of politeness and by the 1790s are ''pretty much in bad taste'' (AN 187). Writing to his patron and ...
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Shaftesbury Hume Burke | 47 |
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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