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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A Literary History Denise Gigante. Taste DENISE GIGANTE Taste A LITERARY HISTORY Yale University Press New Front Cover.
A Literary History Denise Gigante. Taste DENISE GIGANTE Taste A LITERARY HISTORY Yale University Press New Front Cover.
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A Literary History Denise Gigante. Contents. Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix 1. Aesthetics and Appetite: An Introduction 1 2. Mortal Taste: Milton 22 3. The Century of Taste: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke 47 4. Digesting ...
A Literary History Denise Gigante. Contents. Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix 1. Aesthetics and Appetite: An Introduction 1 2. Mortal Taste: Milton 22 3. The Century of Taste: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke 47 4. Digesting ...
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A Literary History Denise Gigante. Acknowledgments. Like most books, this one is hardly the product of one mind. My deepest debts of gratitude are to Harold Bloom for inspiring and supporting my life as a scholar; to Jay Fliegelman for ...
A Literary History Denise Gigante. Acknowledgments. Like most books, this one is hardly the product of one mind. My deepest debts of gratitude are to Harold Bloom for inspiring and supporting my life as a scholar; to Jay Fliegelman for ...
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A Literary History Denise Gigante. Abbreviations. AN Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, trans. Victor Lyle Dowdell (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978). BLJ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Byron's ...
A Literary History Denise Gigante. Abbreviations. AN Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, trans. Victor Lyle Dowdell (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978). BLJ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Byron's ...
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A Literary History Denise Gigante. WCL Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas. 8 vols. (London: Methuen, 1903). WMP William Makepeace Thackeray, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. 26 vols. (New ...
A Literary History Denise Gigante. WCL Charles and Mary Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas. 8 vols. (London: Methuen, 1903). WMP William Makepeace Thackeray, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. 26 vols. (New ...
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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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