The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521026666)

Timothy Morton explores the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of a growing consumer culture and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. The Poetics of Spice includes discussion of a wide range of related topics--exoticism, orientalism, colonialism, the slave trade, race and gender issues, and, above all, capitalism. The book surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts, and includes new readings of Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith and Southey among many others.

Author: Timothy Morton
ISBN-10: 0521026660
ISBN-13: 9780521026666
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d