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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... Human Values and Dean's Fund for Scholarly Travel , the Stanford Humanities Center , and the School of Human- ities and Sciences at Stanford . In addition , the International Conference on Romanticism , the North American Society for ...
... Human Values and Dean's Fund for Scholarly Travel , the Stanford Humanities Center , and the School of Human- ities and Sciences at Stanford . In addition , the International Conference on Romanticism , the North American Society for ...
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... Passions ( 1711 reprint ; New York : Arno Press , 1976 ) . David Hume , A Treatise of Human Nature , ed . L. A. Selby Bigge . 2d ed . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1978 ) . WCL WMP WU YP Charles and Mary Lamb , The Abbreviations ' મેં.
... Passions ( 1711 reprint ; New York : Arno Press , 1976 ) . David Hume , A Treatise of Human Nature , ed . L. A. Selby Bigge . 2d ed . ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1978 ) . WCL WMP WU YP Charles and Mary Lamb , The Abbreviations ' મેં.
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... human appetites is to risk becoming a glutton, a drunkard, or a voluptuary.∏ All the major Enlightenment philosophers of taste were involved in the civilizing pro- cess of sublimating the tasteful essence of selfhood from its own ...
... human appetites is to risk becoming a glutton, a drunkard, or a voluptuary.∏ All the major Enlightenment philosophers of taste were involved in the civilizing pro- cess of sublimating the tasteful essence of selfhood from its own ...
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... human beings were propelled not by natural cravings for virtue , beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from those of brutes . Human beings may be taxonomized as Homo sapiens , but in the ...
... human beings were propelled not by natural cravings for virtue , beauty , and truth but by appetites that could not be civilized or distinguished from those of brutes . Human beings may be taxonomized as Homo sapiens , but in the ...
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... human . If “ man ” was no longer a thinking animal , what kind of an animal was he ? Benjamin Franklin proposed “ a ... human beings have much in common with beasts , only humans develop what are called cuisines : " Hu- mans are ...
... human . If “ man ” was no longer a thinking animal , what kind of an animal was he ? Benjamin Franklin proposed “ a ... human beings have much in common with beasts , only humans develop what are called cuisines : " Hu- mans are ...
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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