Editorial Reviews
Review
'... a subtle, thought-provoking and ambitious analysis of the opposed ways of the lives of the rich and the poor, the hungry and the surfeited, as exposed in Shelley's thinking. Nobody interested either in Shelley's poetics or the body's politics will be able to ignore.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'Timothy Morton ... is the first critic to take Shelley's vegetarianism seriously ... The results prove to be revolutionary in themselves ... his readings are ... attuned to the complexities of Shelleyan figurality ... this is a book of very real importance.' Shelley Journal
'The book is a kind of belated yet updated 'Renaissance self-fashioning' for Romantic studies. This is an exciting and genuinely original book which offers much to Shelley studies and to the wider current debate about the 'greening' of Romanticism.' Keats Shelley Review
Book Description
This groundbreaking study addresses the representation of food and drink in the works of Percy and Mary Shelley. With original studies of much-debated texts, it provides new perspectives in recent cultural history and theory concerning medicine and diet in the 1790SH1820 period. Morton shows how food in the social and literary text provided complex and ambivalent ways of signaling ideological preferences. It will appeal to all those interested in the body, ecology and social and anthropological approaches to Romantic literature.
Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism),Timothy Morton,Marilyn Butler,James Chandler,Cambridge University Press,0521471354,1792-1822,18th century,Body, Human, in literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Gothic & Romance,History,Human-animal relationships,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Nature conservation,Political and social views,Public opinion,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,,Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822,British Isles,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: 19th century,Poetry & poets: 19th century,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,--1792-1822--Political and social views
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