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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Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic Timothy Morton. THE POETICS OF SPICE Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic TIMOTHY MORTON ys This book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice. Front Cover.
Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic Timothy Morton. THE POETICS OF SPICE Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic TIMOTHY MORTON ys This book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice. Front Cover.
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... literary , political , medical , travel , trade and philoso- phical texts and includes new readings of Milton , Coleridge , Keats , Landon , Shelley , Leigh Hunt , Helen Maria Williams , Erasmus Darwin , Charlotte Smith and Southey ...
... literary , political , medical , travel , trade and philoso- phical texts and includes new readings of Milton , Coleridge , Keats , Landon , Shelley , Leigh Hunt , Helen Maria Williams , Erasmus Darwin , Charlotte Smith and Southey ...
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... literary history , especially national literary history , on which modern scholarship in English has been founded . The categories produced by Romanticism have also been challenged by recent historicist arguments . The task of the ...
... literary history , especially national literary history , on which modern scholarship in English has been founded . The categories produced by Romanticism have also been challenged by recent historicist arguments . The task of the ...
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... literary and cultural history of the commodity . I am not a trained anthropologist or cultural historian , but interdisciplinarity , if it is to mean anything at all , must let the object of inquiry answer back concerning what sorts of ...
... literary and cultural history of the commodity . I am not a trained anthropologist or cultural historian , but interdisciplinarity , if it is to mean anything at all , must let the object of inquiry answer back concerning what sorts of ...
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... literary history of spice , nor is it a spicy history of literature . It studies how a certain commodity is ideologi- cally conceived in figurative language , and how certain forms of figurative language and theory are ideologically ...
... literary history of spice , nor is it a spicy history of literature . It studies how a certain commodity is ideologi- cally conceived in figurative language , and how certain forms of figurative language and theory are ideologically ...
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