The poetics of spice : romantic consumerism and the exotic

Timothy Morton

This 2000 book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of consumerism and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. Timothy Morton demonstrates how the emerging consumer culture was characterized by an ornate, figuratively rich mode of representation which he describes as 'the poetics of spice'. This is the focal point for a probing analysis that addresses a host of related themes - exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. Employing a mixture of Marxist, deconstructive and psychoanalytic theory, Morton explores how capitalist ideology was inscribed in the very materials of consumption. The book takes a wide historical perspective, surveying a range of literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes readings of Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith and Southey among many others.

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This 2000 book considers the literary and cultural significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of consumerism and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. Timothy Morton demonstrates how the emerging consumer culture was characterized by an ornate, figuratively rich mode of representation which he describes as 'the poetics of spice'. This is the focal point for a probing analysis that addresses a host of related themes - exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. Employing a mixture of Marxist, deconstructive and psychoanalytic theory, Morton explores how capitalist ideology was inscribed in the very materials of consumption. The book takes a wide historical perspective, surveying a range of literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes readings of Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith and Southey among many others.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The confection of spice: historical and theoretical considerations
  • 2. Trade winds
  • 3. Place settings
  • 4. Blood sugar
  • 5. Sound and scents: further investigations of space
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. The confection of spice: historical and theoretical considerations
  • 2. Trade winds
  • 3. Place settings
  • 4. Blood sugar
  • 5. Sound and scents: further investigations of space
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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書名 The poetics of spice : romantic consumerism and the exotic
著作者等 Morton, Timothy
Chandler, James
Butler, Marilyn
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in romanticism
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2000
ページ数 xiii, 282 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521026660
0521771463
NCID BA48395182
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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