Imperial paradoxes : training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century

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Titel
Imperial paradoxes training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century
verantwortlich
Merrett, Robert James (VerfasserIn)
Schriftenreihe
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83
veröffentlicht
Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
© 2021
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Teil von
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83
Erscheint auch als
Merrett, Robert James, Imperial paradoxes, Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021
Erscheint auch als
Merrett, Robert James, Imperial paradoxes, Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021, Online-Ressource
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Zusammenfassung
1.Aesthetic Empires: Symbolic And Psychological Learning --2.Literariness: Aesthetic And Cultural Dialectic --3.Spirits And Wine In Imperial Canada, 1630-1900 --4.Cuisine, Eating, And Empires Of Taste --5.Travel, Fashion, And Cultural Exchange --6.Comparative Imperial Aesthetics And Viticulture.
"At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history."--
Umfang
xv, 399 Seiten; 24 cm
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
BK-Notation
18.05 Englische Literatur
18.23 Französische Literatur
17.93 Literarische Stoffe, literarische Motive, literarische Themen
17.91 Literatursoziologie
DDC-Notation
820.9/35709033
ISBN
9780228006848
022800683X
9780228006831
0228006848