Taste : a literary history /

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What 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 & dramatic tension between appetite & aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gigante, Denise, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Taste in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Gastronomy in literature.
Aesthetics, British.
Food in literature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Gôut dans le littérature.
Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature.
Gastronomie dans la littérature.
Esthétique britannique.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Goût dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Aesthetics, British
English literature
Food habits in literature
Food in literature
Gastronomy in literature
Taste in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aesthetics and appetite : an introduction
  • Mortal taste : Milton
  • The century of taste : Shaftesbury, Hume, Burke
  • Digesting Wordsworth
  • Lamb's low-urban taste
  • Taste outraged : Byron
  • Keats's nausea
  • The gastronome and the snob : George IV.

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