Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite Eating Romanticism [Paperback]

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption. As consumption, in all its metaphorical variety, comes to displace the body as a theoritical site for challenging the distinction between inside and outside, food itself has attracted attention as a device to interrogate the rhetoric and politics of Romanticism. In brief, the volume initiates a dialogue between the cultural politics of food and eating, and the philosophical implications of ingestion, digestion and excretion.Aftertaste The Unconsumable Un-Sublime and the Destruction of Literature in Keats and Shelley Speculative Consumption: Irony and Schlegel The Spirit Addict's Diet: Nietzsche, Kant and the Question of Nutrition Kant's Dinner Party: Feasting Philosophers, Opulent Persons, and Other Pesky Guests Romantic Dietetics! or, Eating Your Way to a New You! Romantic Cannibalism: Eating People in the South Seas Romanticism and the Fruits of Empire Immortal Dinners The Politics of the Platter: Charlotte Smith and the 'Science of Eating' Byron's World of Zest Hegel, Eating: Schelling and the Carnivorous Virility of the West (In)digestible Material: Negativity, Illness and Waste in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature The Endgame of Taste

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is an important book that compellingly shows how high theory and cultural studies can be on the same menu. In doing so, Cultures of Taste persuasively demonstrates that any serious consideration of our social life must engage with Romanticism in all its historical, textual, and philosophical dimensions. This work is an impressive collection of writings that inaugurates the new field of diet studies in a wonderful manner. - Orrin N. C. Wang, University of Maryland, College Park

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