Description
Consuming the Enlightenment presents a brand new perspective on the historical past of meals, taking a look at writings about delicacies, food regimen, and meals chemistry as a key to bigger debates over the state of the nation in Previous Regime France. Embracing a variety of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of consuming and ingesting have been used to articulate issues concerning the state of civilization versus that of nature, concerning the results of consumption upon the identities of people and nations, and concerning the correct kind and apply of scholarship. En route, Spary devotes in depth consideration to the manufacture, commerce, and consuming of meals, focusing upon espresso and liqueurs specifically, and in addition considers controversies over particular points such because the chemistry of digestion and the character of alcohol. Acquainted figures corresponding to Fontenelle, Diderot, and Rousseau seem alongside little-known people from the margins of the world of letters: the draughts-playing café proprietor Charles Manoury, the “Turkish envoy” Soliman Aga, and the pure thinker Jacques Gautier d’Agoty. Equally entertaining and enlightening, Consuming the Enlightenment might be an authentic contribution to discussions of the dissemination of data and the character of scientific authority.
ASIN : B009PS2MHW
Writer : The College of Chicago Press; 1st version (April 8, 2013)
Publication date : April 8, 2013
Language : English
File dimension : 7091 KB
Textual content-to-Speech : Enabled
Display screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Phrase Sensible : Not Enabled
Print size : 380 pages
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