The Poetics of Spice
Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic
By Timothy Morton; Morton Timothy; Marilyn Butler (Editor)
(Cambridge University Press, Paperback, 9780521026666, 300pp.)
Publication Date: June 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Description
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.
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