The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the ExoticCambridge University Press, 2006 - 300 páginas Timothy Morton explores the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of a growing consumer culture and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. The Poetics of Spice includes discussion of a wide range of related topics--exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. The book surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes new readings of Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith and Southey among many others. |
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... rich mode of representation which he describes as ' the poetics of spice ' . This is the focal point for a probing analysis that addresses a host of related themes - exoticism , orientalism , colonialism , the slave trade , race and ...
... rich mode of representation which he describes as ' the poetics of spice ' . This is the focal point for a probing analysis that addresses a host of related themes - exoticism , orientalism , colonialism , the slave trade , race and ...
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... rich a source for The Poetics of Spice . It was during the Romantic period , as Campbell points out , citing Joyce Appleby , that the modern consumer was born out of the consumer society of the eighteenth century depicted by Neil ...
... rich a source for The Poetics of Spice . It was during the Romantic period , as Campbell points out , citing Joyce Appleby , that the modern consumer was born out of the consumer society of the eighteenth century depicted by Neil ...
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... rich objects of investi- gation ; indeed , the study of spice is of riches and value . It is also necessarily wide - ranging : I have found powerful , contradictory stories about spice from the Roman Empire to Frank Herbert's Dune ...
... rich objects of investi- gation ; indeed , the study of spice is of riches and value . It is also necessarily wide - ranging : I have found powerful , contradictory stories about spice from the Roman Empire to Frank Herbert's Dune ...
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Contenido
The confection of spice historical and theoretical considerations | 8 |
Trade winds | 39 |
Place settings | 109 |
Blood sugar | 171 |
Sound and scents further investigations of space | 207 |
Notes | 236 |
Bibliography | 252 |
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The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic Timothy Morton Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |
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