Auteur: Gigante Denise Gigante

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 …

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, …

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 …

The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, …