Taste and knowledge in early modern England / Elizabeth L. Swann.
Taste and knowledge in early modern England / Elizabeth L. Swann.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2021/1950
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English
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xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
'To dream to eat books' : of bibliophagy, bees, and literary taste -- Anatomizing taste : practice, subjectivity, and sense in Mikrokosmographia -- From Eve's apple to the bread of life : piety and palate in devotional literature -- The 'fruits of natural knowledge' : taste and the early Royal Socie...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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"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 tast...
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Taste and knowledge in early modern England / Elizabeth L. Swann.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-255) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/1950
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74VKaajy0ELy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaajy0ELy
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ISBN
1108487653
9781108487658
DDC
820.93559
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991024424017402626
