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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... object of inquiry answer back concerning what sorts of knowledge might be applied to it . I have brought my skills as a literary critic to a more open field . My discussion of the role of spice in literature and culture is not a ...
... object of inquiry answer back concerning what sorts of knowledge might be applied to it . I have brought my skills as a literary critic to a more open field . My discussion of the role of spice in literature and culture is not a ...
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... objects but not with emulating the upper classes . This is where Thorstein Veblen's and Bourdieu's emphases on emulation and conspicuous consumption are inadequate to the task of describing Romantic consumerism . This study has found ...
... objects but not with emulating the upper classes . This is where Thorstein Veblen's and Bourdieu's emphases on emulation and conspicuous consumption are inadequate to the task of describing Romantic consumerism . This study has found ...
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... 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 ; from ...
... 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 ; from ...
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