02297nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139856423 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121109s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139856423 (ebook) 9781107039063 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR428.F66 G65 2013 820.9/3559 23 Goldstein, David B., author. Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England / [electronic resource] David B. Goldstein. Eating & Ethics in Shakespeare's England Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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. Food in literature Eating (Philosophy) Ethics, Renaissance, in literature Print version: 9781107039063 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856423 Cambridge Books Online 236413 236413