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020 _a9781139856423 (ebook)
020 _z9781107039063 (hardback)
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050 0 0 _aPR428.F66
_bG65 2013
082 0 0 _a820.9/3559
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100 1 _aGoldstein, David B.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aEating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England / [electronic resource]
_cDavid B. Goldstein.
246 3 _aEating & Ethics in Shakespeare's England
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (290 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _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.
650 0 _aFood in literature
650 0 _aEating (Philosophy)
650 0 _aEthics, Renaissance, in literature
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107039063
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856423
_zCambridge Books Online
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