Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

<p>This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices.</p><p>Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation consumption reception and experience of disgust a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses touch taste and smell through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses featuring visual and aural media.</p><p>Because it is interdisciplinary the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields including visual studies philosophy aesthetics sociology history literature and musicology.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</p>