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The Ambiguity of Taste
Freedom and Food in European Romanticism

Jocelyne Kolb



An exploration into the role of food in the aesthetic revolution of Romanticism

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Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Abbreviations     xi
Introduction     1
Chapter 1: The Poetics of Ambiguous Taste     11
Chapter 2: Real Taste or True Taste: Moliere's Les Femmes savantes and Fielding's Tom Jones     25
Chapter 3: Byron's Don Juan, or Four and Twenty Blackbirds in a Pie     55
Chapter 4: Heine and the Aesthetics of the Tea Table     115
Chapter 5: Goethe and Hugo: The License of Taste     225
Conclusion: The Effects of Poetic Revolution: From Ambiguous to Symbolist Taste     291
Notes     303
Index     339