Goldstein, David B. creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. David B. Goldstein. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Food in literature Eating (Philosophy) Ethics, Renaissance, in literature PR428.F66 G65 2013 820.9/3559 9781139856423 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856423 UkCbUP 121109 20180107143411.0 CR9781139856423