Taste A Literary History

Name: Taste A Literary History
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ISBN: 9780300172249

ISBN-10: 0300172249

ISBN-13: 9780300172249

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Authors: Denise Gigante

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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 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,…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836

Denise Gigante is Professor of English at Stanford University.