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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... spicy ' means anything hot or , often , any kind of seasoning , an ' energy fuel ' drink called Hot Sauce interpellates the macho chili consumer , appealing to the image of the human as car . The role of spices in medicine is being ...
... spicy ' means anything hot or , often , any kind of seasoning , an ' energy fuel ' drink called Hot Sauce interpellates the macho chili consumer , appealing to the image of the human as car . The role of spices in medicine is being ...
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... the definite article in that phrase , contradicting the cultural map of the world , carries with it a freight of oppression , exploitation , capitalist utopianism and slave labour . What role do spices 2 The poetics of spice.
... the definite article in that phrase , contradicting the cultural map of the world , carries with it a freight of oppression , exploitation , capitalist utopianism and slave labour . What role do spices 2 The poetics of spice.
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... spices and such luxuries of the New World as chocolate and sugar play in the construction of oppressive and liberating ideologies ? Moving to Wimbledon Park when I was about ten years old , at the height of a media panic about racial ...
... spices and such luxuries of the New World as chocolate and sugar play in the construction of oppressive and liberating ideologies ? Moving to Wimbledon Park when I was about ten years old , at the height of a media panic about racial ...
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... 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 conceived through the commodity . The ...
... 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 conceived through the commodity . The ...
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