Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader
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A01=Andrew Elder Zurcher
A01=Jason Scott-Warren
Author_Andrew Elder Zurcher
Author_Jason Scott-Warren
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Beauty Moves
bibliographical studies
Book III
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cultural history scholarship
De Worde
diet of words
early modern literature
English printing house
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history of the body
ingestion and expression in texts
literary consumption
Literary Skill Sets
macaronic book
material textuality
modern cultural history
Nashe Pierce Penilesse
Oral Utterance
Salad Oil
Salad Oyl
Scappi's Opera
Scappi’s Opera
Sea Water
Shepheardes Calender
Verse Lines
Verso Recto
Vice Versa
White Space
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Young Men
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- ISBN 9780367665654
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jason Scott-Warren is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, UK. Andrew Elder Zurcher is Fellow & Director of Studies in English at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK.
