Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781108720755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 279 str.

Elizabeth L. (Durham University) Swann

Opis

Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.

Recenzje

'… captivating … Swann's historical and literary account of the many valences of taste shows how much more we have to learn. This study tackles some of the more vexing questions about early modern theories of embodiment in the period, particularly in how both literature and science influenced the reader's embodied experience of subjectivity with taste. Swann ultimately offers a convincing historical account of this neglected sense and the knowledge gained through taste.' Katherine Walker, Renaissance Quaterly

Spis treści

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'.