Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England
- Author: David B. Goldstein, York University, Toronto
- Date Published: October 2017
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108439084
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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.
Read more- Radically rethinks the question of what eating means, both to the early modern writer and to the contemporary world, encouraging readers to consider their own relationship to food
- Includes discussions of recipe books and cookbooks in relation to literary works by Shakespeare and Milton, among others
- Makes connections between the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Renaissance culture, offering the reader a cutting-edge way of looking at Renaissance ethics
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- Date Published: October 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108439084
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: eating relations
Part I. Cannibal Ethics: Excursus: The Body Edible:
1. The cook and the cannibal: Titus Andronicus and New World eating
2. I will not eat with you: failures of commensality in The Merchant of Venice
Part II. Communion and Community:
3. Anne Askew, John Bale, and the stakes of eating
Excursus: Receiving the Recipe:
4. How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture
5. Eaters of Eden: Milton and the invention of hospitality
Conclusion: toward a relational ethics of eating
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