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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... economy of humans from that of other organisms . This wide - ranging effort to sublimate the human from the physiological ground of its lived experience was simultaneously an effort to sublimate the social body into something more than ...
... economy of humans from that of other organisms . This wide - ranging effort to sublimate the human from the physiological ground of its lived experience was simultaneously an effort to sublimate the social body into something more than ...
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... economy as oriented around the stomach — and vulner- able to the slightest digestive malfunction — persisted in the Century of Taste when the human was conceived of as a tasting organism . Taste is etymologically related to touch , and ...
... economy as oriented around the stomach — and vulner- able to the slightest digestive malfunction — persisted in the Century of Taste when the human was conceived of as a tasting organism . Taste is etymologically related to touch , and ...
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... economy of digestion . Yet , like the philosophical mystery of what it means to be human , the manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that ...
... economy of digestion . Yet , like the philosophical mystery of what it means to be human , the manner in which the sentient being processes the physical world was far from clear . In 1786 the British physiologist John Hunter noted that ...
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... economy of consumption , there can be no room for nonproductive expendi- ture : all pleasures that do not lead directly to the propagation of the species ( more workers to perform more work ) are labeled Aesthetics and Appetite 19.
... economy of consumption , there can be no room for nonproductive expendi- ture : all pleasures that do not lead directly to the propagation of the species ( more workers to perform more work ) are labeled Aesthetics and Appetite 19.
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... Economies of Consumption ― Milton's portrayal of gustatory taste asks us to take seriously the on- tological power of eating and the proposition that paradise was lost ( and society made ) because Eve , and then Adam , ate . Within ...
... Economies of Consumption ― Milton's portrayal of gustatory taste asks us to take seriously the on- tological power of eating and the proposition that paradise was lost ( and society made ) because Eve , and then Adam , ate . Within ...
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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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