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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... sense of the empty play of language is appropriate in the light of the transumptive and spectral qualities of spice and spice . His terms draw attention to the role of spice as a sign . Derrida is not the last word , however . Because ...
... sense of the empty play of language is appropriate in the light of the transumptive and spectral qualities of spice and spice . His terms draw attention to the role of spice as a sign . Derrida is not the last word , however . Because ...
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... sense from these , taking a long view and gesturing towards a large , general picture . It is incomplete , not because I do not approve of totalising narratives for fear of their assumed totalitarian implications , but just because it ...
... sense from these , taking a long view and gesturing towards a large , general picture . It is incomplete , not because I do not approve of totalising narratives for fear of their assumed totalitarian implications , but just because it ...
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... senses , we dislike it indirectly , that is , as considered by reason , which looks ahead to the consequences . Spice is strangely half - way between the beautiful ( a non - purposive delight in the good ) and the practical . What ...
... senses , we dislike it indirectly , that is , as considered by reason , which looks ahead to the consequences . Spice is strangely half - way between the beautiful ( a non - purposive delight in the good ) and the practical . What ...
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... sense of the unusual but necessary nature of this project . The political is found to be inscribed within the minutest particulars of the poetic . This is not a book about the changing political contexts of a recurring topos . I do not ...
... sense of the unusual but necessary nature of this project . The political is found to be inscribed within the minutest particulars of the poetic . This is not a book about the changing political contexts of a recurring topos . I do not ...
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