Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism

• Author(s): T. Morton,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 287
• ISBN_10: 1403981396
  ISBN_13: 9781403981394
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... 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.