| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-228) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Taste in literature.
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Taste in literature. |
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits in literature. |
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Gastronomy in literature.
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Gastronomy in literature. |
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Aesthetics, British.
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Aesthetics, British. |
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Food in literature.
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Food in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gigante, Denise, 1965- Taste. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300106521 9780300106527 (DLC) 2004058452 (OCoLC)56686583 |
| ISBN |
9780300133059 (electronic book) |
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0300133057 (electronic book) |
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9780300106527 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300106521 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1281731250 |
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9781281731258 |
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