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Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader

Eating Words

Author: Jason Scott-warren and Andrew Elder Zurcher   Series: Material Readings In Early Modern Culture

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.

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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.

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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 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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd | Routledge
Published
30th August 2018
Pages
198
ISBN
9781472441416

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