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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811161103321

Autore

Goldstein David B. <1972->

Titolo

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England / / David B. Goldstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-89291-6

1-107-50255-1

1-107-50105-9

1-107-50648-4

1-107-51409-6

1-107-49698-5

1-107-51688-9

1-107-50376-0

1-139-85642-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/3559

Soggetti

Food habits - England - History

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Food in literature

Eating (Philosophy)

Ethics, Renaissance, in literature

Renaissance - England

England Civilization 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Eating relations -- The cook and the cannibal: Titus Andronicus and new world eating -- I will not eat with you: failures of commensality in the Merchant of Venice -- Anne Askew, John Bale, and the stakes of eating -- How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture -- Eaters of Eden: Milton and the invention of hospitality -- Conclusion: Toward a relational ethics of eating.

Sommario/riassunto

David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus



on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships - between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 - through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors - Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body's role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book's arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.