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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... poetic form , content and style by the Lake School and the Cockney School . Outside Shakespeare studies , probably no body of writing has produced such a wealth of response or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism ...
... poetic form , content and style by the Lake School and the Cockney School . Outside Shakespeare studies , probably no body of writing has produced such a wealth of response or done so much to shape the responses of modern criticism ...
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... poetic discourse : Maximilianus Transylvanus , De Moluccis insulis ( 1523 ) , title page . 3 ' Indiae orientalis , insularumque adiacientium typus ' : Abraham Ortelius , Theatrum orbis terrarum ( Antwerp : E. C. Diesth , 1570 ) ...
... poetic discourse : Maximilianus Transylvanus , De Moluccis insulis ( 1523 ) , title page . 3 ' Indiae orientalis , insularumque adiacientium typus ' : Abraham Ortelius , Theatrum orbis terrarum ( Antwerp : E. C. Diesth , 1570 ) ...
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... Poets of the Romantic Period collection at the University of Colorado . I would also like to thank James Chandler , Alan Richardson and the other , anonymous reader at Cambridge University Press . Josie Dixon at Cambridge University ...
... Poets of the Romantic Period collection at the University of Colorado . I would also like to thank James Chandler , Alan Richardson and the other , anonymous reader at Cambridge University Press . Josie Dixon at Cambridge University ...
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... poetic and culinary applications of ' taste ' in the works of Molière , Fielding , Byron , Heine , Goethe and Hugo . The Poetics of Spice is not an example of New Historicism , with its constrained epistemic contextualism . Nor is it ...
... poetic and culinary applications of ' taste ' in the works of Molière , Fielding , Byron , Heine , Goethe and Hugo . The Poetics of Spice is not an example of New Historicism , with its constrained epistemic contextualism . Nor is it ...
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... poetic discourses on trade , showing how spice's role as a mark of tropological instability provided a means of imagining the circulating liquidity of capitalism . Even when ostensibly anti - capi- talist poets such as Percy Shelley ...
... poetic discourses on trade , showing how spice's role as a mark of tropological instability provided a means of imagining the circulating liquidity of capitalism . Even when ostensibly anti - capi- talist poets such as Percy Shelley ...
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