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Text Food and the Early Modern Reader Eating Words

Text Food and the Early Modern Reader Eating Words( )
Author: Scott-Warren, Jason
Zurcher, Andrew Elder
Series title:Material Readings in Early Modern Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4724-4141-6
Publication Date:Jun 2018
Publisher:Routledge
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $149.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.201 x 9.204 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.157 Pounds



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