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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821265203321

Autore

Merrett Robert James

Titolo

Imperial paradoxes : training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century / / Robert James Merrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-2280-0796-8

0-2280-0797-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Aesthetics in literature

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

France Intellectual life 18th century

Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Aesthetic Empires: Symbolic And Psychological Learning -- ; 2. Literariness: Aesthetic And Cultural Dialectic -- ; 3. Spirits And Wine In Imperial Canada, 1630-1900 -- ; 4. Cuisine, Eating, And Empires Of Taste -- ; 5. Travel, Fashion, And Cultural Exchange -- ; 6. Comparative Imperial Aesthetics And Viticulture.

Sommario/riassunto

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics.