Gymnich / Baumann / Schmidt-Haberkamp The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating

The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86234-775-9
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Reihe: Representations & Reflections.

Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today’s media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death.In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine.It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gymnich, Marion

Baumann, Uwe

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baumann, Uwe

Gymnich, Marion

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Introduction;10
3;“Schollers are Bad Caruers” – Analogies of Reading and/as Eating in Tudor Physiology and Fiction;24
4;Eating Words: Some Notes on a Metaphor and its Use in Much Ado About Nothing;46
5;Food, Famine, Appetites and Eroticism in Plays by William Shakespeare and his Contemporaries;60
6;Eating, Drinking and Genre in Shakespeare;78
7;Alimentary Metaphors and their Political Context in Shakespeare’s Plays;96
8;Private Culinary Fantasies, Public Feasting, and the Cannibalization of the Body in Jacobean Drama;110
9;The Play as Banquet: Implications of a Metatheatrical Conceit in Jacobean – Caroline Drama;126
10;Donne, Devotion, and Digestion;144
11;Questions of Taste: The Critic as Connoisseur and the Hungry Reader;166
12;‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ (1822 –35): A Comic Symposium of the Romantic Period;188
13;Dining with the Brontës: Food and Gender Roles in Mid-Victorian England;206
14;Dyspepsia or Digestion: The Pleasures of the Board in Martin Chuzzlewit;222
15;Don’t Play with Your Food? – Edward Lear’s Nonsense Cookery and Limericks;238
16;The bête humaine and its Food in Nineteenth-Century Naturalist Fiction;256
17;The Promises of Plenty in Scarcity: Notes on Ascetic Modernism;274
18;Fascination and Pleasure: Aesthetic Culture, Darwinism, and Eating in English Literature at the Turn of the Century (Wells, Housman, Brooke);288
19;Food, Modernity, Modernism: D.H. Lawrence and the Futurist Cookbook;306
20;Food on Intertextual Demand: The Blood Oranges (John Hawkes); The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford); As You Like It and What You Will (William Shakespeare);324
21;‘Good to Eat’: Selected Modern American Poems;340
22;‘All Hands to Dinner!’ – Food and Drink in Naval Stories;362
23;The Pleasures in the Horrors of Eating Human Flesh: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd;388
24;Eating bok choy in Chinatown – The Pleasures and Horrors of Food in Chinese American Literature;410
25;The Battle of the Bulge? Anorexia Nervosa in North American Fiction 1969-1981-2007;430
26;Armchair Epicures: The Proliferation of Food Programmes on British TV;448

Über Autor(innen)

Gymnich, Marion
Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich lehrt Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.

Gymnich, Marion
Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich lehrt Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.

Baumann, Uwe
Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumann lehrt Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.

Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp lehrt am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universität Bonn.

Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich hat in Köln Anglistik, Germanistik und Slavistik studiert, war an der Universität Köln als Mitarbeiterin tätig und wurde dort 2000 in Anglistik promoviert. Nach einer Tätigkeit als Koordinatorin des Internationalen Promotionsprogramms ›Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft‹ und Habilitation in Gießen ist sie seit 2006 Professorin für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft in Bonn.

Norbert Lennartz is currently Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Würzburg. His field of teaching and research covers a wide range of writers from Shakespeare to the early 20th century and also includes comparative investigations of literature and art.