02266nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002500194082001900219100003400238245009200272246004500364264005200409300005900461336002600520337002600546338003600572500007300608520105500681650002301736650002401759650003901783776003501822856007101857CR9781139856423UkCbUP20180107143411.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||121109s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139856423 (ebook)  z9781107039063 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPR428.F66 bG65 201300a820.9/35592231 aGoldstein, David B.,eauthor.10aEating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England / [electronic resource]cDavid B. Goldstein.3 aEating & Ethics in Shakespeare's England 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (290 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aDavid 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. 0aFood in literature 0aEating (Philosophy) 0aEthics, Renaissance, in literature08iPrint version: z978110703906340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856423zCambridge Books Online