03561nam 2200733 a 450 991080736270332120240417235243.01-281-73125-097866117312500-300-13305-710.12987/9780300133059(CKB)1000000000472121(EBL)3419864(OCoLC)923587932(SSID)ssj0000255648(PQKBManifestationID)11229948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255648(PQKBWorkID)10215724(PQKB)11698941(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165571(MiAaPQ)EBC3419864(DE-B1597)485447(OCoLC)1024006300(DE-B1597)9780300133059(Au-PeEL)EBL3419864(CaPaEBR)ebr10167913(CaONFJC)MIL173125(EXLCZ)99100000000047212120040923d2005 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrTaste a literary history /Denise Gigante1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20051 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-10652-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-288) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations --1. Aesthetics and Appetite: An Introduction --2. Mortal Taste: Milton --3. The Century of Taste: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke --4. Digesting Wordsworth --5. Lamb's Low-Urban Taste --6. Taste Outraged: Byron --7. Keats's Nausea --8. The Gastronome and the Snob: George IV --Notes --IndexWhat 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.English literatureHistory and criticismTaste in literatureFood habits in literatureGastronomy in literatureAesthetics, BritishFood in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Taste in literature.Food habits in literature.Gastronomy in literature.Aesthetics, British.Food in literature.820.9/3559Gigante Denise1965-1636405MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807362703321Taste3977656UNINA