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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... 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 Acknowledgments Like most books, this one is ...
... 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 Acknowledgments Like most books, this one is ...
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... Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ...
... Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed. Earl Leslie Griggs. 6 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ...
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... Shaftesbury , was the prototype for the eighteenth - century Man of Taste , and the moral and intellectual struggle waged between him and his philosophical rival , Bernard Mandeville , high- lights the tension between the conceptual ...
... Shaftesbury , was the prototype for the eighteenth - century Man of Taste , and the moral and intellectual struggle waged between him and his philosophical rival , Bernard Mandeville , high- lights the tension between the conceptual ...
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... Shaftesbury certain fundamental assumptions of Whig philosophy regarding state , re- ligious authority , and individual freedom , but the two differed radically over their view of human nature and its ability to be refined . 16 ...
... Shaftesbury certain fundamental assumptions of Whig philosophy regarding state , re- ligious authority , and individual freedom , but the two differed radically over their view of human nature and its ability to be refined . 16 ...
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... Shaftesbury , and continuing through Addison , Hume , and Burke , all engage Milton as the prime example of rhetori- cal sublimity in English.63 His epic representations of gustatory taste , the fol- lowing chapter of this book argues ...
... Shaftesbury , and continuing through Addison , Hume , and Burke , all engage Milton as the prime example of rhetori- cal sublimity in English.63 His epic representations of gustatory taste , the fol- lowing chapter of this book argues ...
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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