Auteur: Denise Gigante

A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era in which the genre was invented From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, …

The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English- …

The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English- …

What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dr …

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John and George Keats-Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words-embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States …

John and George Keats-Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words-embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States …