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Pina Palma uses the central metaphor of food to uncover unexpectedly fresh dimensions of Renaissance intellectual traditions.

Italian literature --- Food in literature. --- Gastronomy in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism.

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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, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth's feeding mind, Lamb's gastronomical essays, Byron's cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics.

Aesthetics, British. --- English literature --- Food habits in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Gastronomy in literature. --- Taste in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82.01 --- 82.091 --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82.01 Esthetica --- Esthetica --- Aesthetics, British --- Food habits in literature --- Food in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Taste in literature --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- History and criticism

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History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Dinners and dining --- Dinners and dining in literature. --- Food habits in literature. --- Gastronomy in literature. --- Repas --- Repas dans la littérature --- Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature --- Gastronomie dans la littérature --- History. --- Histoire --- -Dinners and dining in literature --- Food habits in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- Banquets --- Dining --- Eating --- Meals --- Caterers and catering --- Entertaining --- Etiquette --- Cooking --- Gastronomy --- Menus --- Table --- History --- Repas dans la littérature --- Habitudes alimentaires dans la littérature --- Gastronomie dans la littérature --- Dinners and dining in literature --- Dinners and dining - Europe - History. --- manières --- repas

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The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its cuisines: Asian Americans. She begins with the general argument that eating is a means of becoming—not simply in the sense of nourishment but more importantly of what we choose to eat, what we can afford to eat, what we secretly crave but are ashamed to eat in front of others, and how we eat. Food, as the most significant medium of traffic between the inside and outside of our bodies, organizes, signifies, and legitimates our sense of self and distinguishes us from others, who practice different food ways. Narrowing her scope, Xu reveals how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong) and places these identity issues in the fascinating spaces of food, hunger, consumption, appetite, desire, and orality. Asian American literature abounds in culinary metaphors and references, but few scholars have made sense of them in a meaningful way. Most literary critics perceive alimentary references as narrative strategies or part of the background; Xu takes food as the central site of cultural and political struggles waged in the seemingly private domain of desire in the lives of Asian Americans. Eating Identities is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Unlike most sociological studies, which center on empirical analyses of the relationship between food and society, it focuses on how food practices influence psychological and ontological formations and thus contributes significantly to the growing field of food studies. For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts.

American literature --- Gastronomy in literature. --- Food habits in literature. --- Dinners and dining in literature. --- Cooking in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Food habits --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Social aspects. --- Cookery in literature --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Literature --- Ethnic group --- Masculinity

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This study explores the subtle and complex significance of food and eating in contemporary women's fiction. Sarah Sceats reveals how preoccupations with food, its consumption and the body are central to the work of writers such as Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Michèle Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Through close analysis of their fiction, Sceats examines the multiple metaphors associated with these themes, making powerful connections between food and love, motherhood, sexual desire, self identity and social behaviour. The activities surrounding food and its consumption (or non-consumption) embrace both the most intimate and the most thoroughly public aspects of our lives. The book draws on psychoanalytical, feminist and sociological theory to engage with a diverse range of issues, including chapters on cannibalism and eating disorders. This lively study demonstrates that feeding and eating are not simply fundamental to life but are inseparable from questions of gender, power and control.

Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Eating disorders in literature. --- English fiction. --- English fiction - Women authors - History and crit. --- Food habits in literature. --- Food in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Women and literature. --- English fiction --- Food in literature --- Women and literature --- Consumption (Economics) in literature --- Eating disorders in literature --- Human body in literature --- Food habits in literature --- Gastronomy in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Gastronomy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Carter, Angela --- Lessing, Doris --- Roberts, Michèle --- Ellis, Alice Thomas --- Atwood, Margaret --- ROMAN ANGLAIS --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- CORPS HUMAIN DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOURRITURE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- ANGLETERRE --- Writers --- Food --- Book --- Auteurs. --- Boek. --- Literatuur. --- Thematologie. --- Verhalend proza. --- Voeding. --- Voedingshygiene Dieet. --- Atwood, Margaret. --- Carter, Angela. --- Ellis, Alice Thomas. --- Lessing, Doris. --- Roberts, Michele.