Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader : Eating Words
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
ISBN-10
1472441419
ISBN-13
9781472441416
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2018
Print length
198 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.40 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Food & society
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Putting embodied experience at the heart or the stomach of our understanding of literary artistry, linguistic innovation and book history, this landmark collection explores the edible materiality of reading and writing in the period.
In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining, from preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary, historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history of the body.
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