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- Book Title
- Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108487653
ISBN-13
9781108487658
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19050085984
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Publication Name
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-022744
Reviews
'Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England is densely researched and evidenced, its ideas lucidly articulated.' Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
820.93559
Table Of Content
Introduction; 1. 'To Dream to Eat Books': of bibliophagy, bees, and literary taste; 2. Anatomizing taste: practice, subjectivity, and sense in Mikrokosmographia; 3. From Eve's apple to the 'Bread of Life': piety and palate in devotional literature; 4. The 'Fruits of Natural knowledge': taste and the early Royal Society; 5. 'Honey Secrets': erotic sweetness and epistemology; Afterword: 'The Way to Know'.
Synopsis
This book will be of use to students, postgraduates, and scholars with interests in the history of the senses and in Renaissance and early modern literature and culture. It offers new readings of influential texts by authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, and Robert Boyle., Elizabeth Swann investigates the relationship between the physical sense of taste and taste as a figurative term associated with knowledge and judgment in early modern literature and culture. She argues that - unlike aesthetic taste in the eighteenth century - discriminative taste was entwined with embodied experience in this period. Although taste was tarnished by its associations with Adam and Eve's fall from Eden, it also functioned positively, as a source of useful, and potentially redemptive, literary, spiritual, experimental, and intersubjective knowledge. Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England juxtaposes canonical literary works by authors such as Shakespeare with a broad range of medical, polemical, theological, philosophical, didactic, and dietetic sources. In doing so, the book reveals the central importance of taste to the experience and articulation of key developments in the literate, religious, and social cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries., "This book investigates the relation between the physical sense of taste, and taste as a figurative term used to denote various forms of discrimination, judgment, and knowledge in early modern England. It argues that in this period taste played a key role in the cultivation of humanist erudition and literary judgment, in the development of the experimental and empirical methodologies associated with modern science, in theological debates about how best to access divine truth, and in the experience and articulation of intersubjective knowledge and sexual desire. It also explores the role of embodied experiences of tasting in the formation of early modern subjectivities, and probes perceived links between the lower senses and the feminine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Attending to early modern notions of 'taste', I propose, facilitates recognition of the hybridity of early modern processes of knowing, which operate across modern binaries of corporeality and intellect, nature and society, and art and science"--
LC Classification Number
PR408.T37S93 2021
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- e***_ (17)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSeller handles a massive inventory so I give them grace on the slow processing and shipping. They were very communicative and prompt with their response when I messaged in asking about it. Book was in good condition as described. Small ding on the page edges which wasn't mentioned, but that's fairly common even at your typical book store. Still a good value and I'd buy from them again.
- r***r (2963)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseBook arrived today, 2 days before deadline given by the seller. Well-packaged & in good condition. Price was very competitive, & the book was accurately listed. Great communication. I appreciate the seller getting back to me when I was having trouble tracking the book's delivery progress. Apparently there were 2 different tracking numbers - one in Canada & the other in the U.S., since it was initially shipped from Canada. Thank you very much for your quick response & helpful information.Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing by Charles (#396183075510)