Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with...

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1. Verfasser:	Swann, Elizabeth 1986- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, USA ; Port Melbourne, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1500-1800 Taste in literature Aesthetics, British Knowledge, Theory of, in literature English literature > History and criticism Wissen Geschmack England > Intellectual life > 16th century England > Intellectual life > 17th century England Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Beschreibung:	'To dream to eat books' : of bibliography, bees, and literary taste -- Anatomizing taste : practice, subjectivity, and sense in Mikrokosmographia -- From Eve's apple to the 'bread of life' : piety and palate in devotional literature -- The 'fruits of natural knowledge' : taste and the early Royal Society -- 'Honey secrets' : erotic sweetness and epistemology -- Afterword: 'The way to know.'
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xii, 267 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108767576
DOI:	10.1017/9781108767576