Taste: A Literary HistoryWhat 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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... Milton 22 3. The Century of Taste : Shaftesbury , Hume , Burke 47 4. Digesting Wordsworth 68 5. Lamb's Low - Urban Taste 89 6. Taste Outraged : Byron 117 7 . Keats's Nausea 139 8 . The Gastronome and the Snob : George IV 160 ...
... Milton 22 3. The Century of Taste : Shaftesbury , Hume , Burke 47 4. Digesting Wordsworth 68 5. Lamb's Low - Urban Taste 89 6. Taste Outraged : Byron 117 7 . Keats's Nausea 139 8 . The Gastronome and the Snob : George IV 160 ...
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... Milton's Aesthetics of Eating " from Diacritics ( 2000 ) in chapter 2 . My immeasurable debts to my parents , David and Frances Gigante , and in- laws , Carolyn and George Collier , as well as to Yvonne Toepfer , who among other things ...
... Milton's Aesthetics of Eating " from Diacritics ( 2000 ) in chapter 2 . My immeasurable debts to my parents , David and Frances Gigante , and in- laws , Carolyn and George Collier , as well as to Yvonne Toepfer , who among other things ...
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... Milton , Complete Poems and Major Prose , ed . Merritt Y. Hughes ( New York : Odyssey , 1957 ) ; poetry is cited PL for Paradise Lost ; PR for Paradise Regained ; and by line number for other PN PRL PT PW R SP SPP SPT SPW TBP THH THN ...
... Milton , Complete Poems and Major Prose , ed . Merritt Y. Hughes ( New York : Odyssey , 1957 ) ; poetry is cited PL for Paradise Lost ; PR for Paradise Regained ; and by line number for other PN PRL PT PW R SP SPP SPT SPW TBP THH THN ...
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... Milton was struggling to represent the gustatory metaphor in Paradise Lost and Regained. Satan conjures ap- petite, manipulating consumer desire and turning the fruit into more than a common apple, or dietary container of nutriments ...
... Milton was struggling to represent the gustatory metaphor in Paradise Lost and Regained. Satan conjures ap- petite, manipulating consumer desire and turning the fruit into more than a common apple, or dietary container of nutriments ...
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... touch and taste the world of sensory reality . A perhaps unex- pected analogy for the enlightened Man of Taste can be found in Milton's angels , who experience pleasure not only in localized bodily Aesthetics and Appetite II.
... touch and taste the world of sensory reality . A perhaps unex- pected analogy for the enlightened Man of Taste can be found in Milton's angels , who experience pleasure not only in localized bodily Aesthetics and Appetite II.
Contents
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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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