LEADER 03564nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910777831803321 005 20230617002941.0 010 $a1-281-73125-0 010 $a9786611731250 010 $a0-300-13305-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300133059 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472121 035 $a(EBL)3419864 035 $a(OCoLC)923587932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000255648 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11229948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255648 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215724 035 $a(PQKB)11698941 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419864 035 $a(DE-B1597)485447 035 $a(OCoLC)1024006300 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300133059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167913 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173125 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472121 100 $a20040923d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaste$b[electronic resource] $ea literary history /$fDenise Gigante 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-300-10652-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-288) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Aesthetics and Appetite: An Introduction --$t2. Mortal Taste: Milton --$t3. The Century of Taste: Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke --$t4. Digesting Wordsworth --$t5. Lamb's Low-Urban Taste --$t6. Taste Outraged: Byron --$t7. Keats's Nausea --$t8. The Gastronome and the Snob: George IV --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTaste in literature 606 $aFood habits in literature 606 $aGastronomy in literature 606 $aAesthetics, British 606 $aFood in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTaste in literature. 615 0$aFood habits in literature. 615 0$aGastronomy in literature. 615 0$aAesthetics, British. 615 0$aFood in literature. 676 $a820.9/3559 700 $aGigante$b Denise$f1965-$01555726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777831803321 996 $aTaste$93848700 997 $aUNINA