The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the ExoticTimothy 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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... associated . What is spice ? What are spices ? How are they represented , and how do they function as units of social discourse about food , capitalism , trade and so forth ? These questions were uppermost in my mind as I ventured forth ...
... associated . What is spice ? What are spices ? How are they represented , and how do they function as units of social discourse about food , capitalism , trade and so forth ? These questions were uppermost in my mind as I ventured forth ...
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... associated with sugar could be used in poetry not to promote but to criticise the labour exploitation inherent in capitalist production and most evident in the slave trade . The final chapter reads the poetics of spice as an emblem for ...
... associated with sugar could be used in poetry not to promote but to criticise the labour exploitation inherent in capitalist production and most evident in the slave trade . The final chapter reads the poetics of spice as an emblem for ...
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