Research Catalog

Title

Imperial paradoxes : training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century / Robert James Merrett.

Author

Merrett, Robert James

Publication

• Montreal, Quebec, Canada ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xv, 399 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and philosophical exchanges that reciprocally transmitted the values of urban geography, medicine, teaching, and the industrial and fine arts. In Imperial Paradoxes Robert Merrett compares British and French literature on those topics. He explains how food, wine, fashion, and tourism were channels of interdisciplinary relations and shows why authors in both nations turned the notion of empire from commercial and military expansion into a metaphor for exploring self-knowledge and pleasure. Although cognitive science has come to the fore only in the past two generations, eighteenth-century writers tested problems in the dualist and faculty psychology of Western rationalism. Themes of embodiment and embodied thought drawn from recent theorists are applied throughout this book, along with dialectics and models of the senses operating together. Imperial Paradoxes avoids the limitations of strict chronology, weaving together multiple narratives for a more complete picture. Applying major works in the fields of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, and pedagogical theory to prose, poetry, and drama from the eighteenth century, Merrett shows how attention to eating, drinking, dressing, and travelling gives important insights into individual literary works and literary history."--

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83.

Subjects

• France
• Great Britain
• French literature
• English literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• 1700-1799
• Travel in literature
• Intellectual life
• Food in literature
• Fashion in literature
• Aesthetics in literature
• France > Intellectual life > 18th century
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century
• French literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 18th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.

Contents

1. Aesthetic Empires: Symbolic And Psychological Learning -- 2. Literariness: Aesthetic And Cultural Dialectic -- 3. Spirits And Wine In Imperial Canada, 1630-1900 -- 4. Cuisine, Eating, And Empires Of Taste -- 5. Travel, Fashion, And Cultural Exchange -- 6. Comparative Imperial Aesthetics And Viticulture.

Call Number

JFE 21-7885

ISBN

• 022800683X
• 9780228006831
• 0228006848
• 9780228006848

OCLC

1202061368

Author

Merrett, Robert James, author.

Title

Imperial paradoxes : training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century / Robert James Merrett.

Publisher

Montreal, Quebec, Canada ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 83.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Other Form:

Online version: Merrett, Robert James. Imperial paradoxes. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228007968 9780228007968 (OCoLC)1241708938

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7885