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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [England]
Goldstein presents a lively analysis of Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors from the perspective of communal eating. Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments --...
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Goldstein presents a lively analysis of Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors from the perspective of communal eating. Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Eating beans -- "A continuall feeding together" -- Eating contra food -- The self in the age of relation -- The hungry belly and its ears -- Levinas and the ethics of hunger -- Structural overview -- Part I Cannibal ethics -- Excursus -- Chapter One The cook and the cannibal -- Revenge and anticlimax -- Old World and New -- Eating scenes -- Romans, Goths, Spaniards, Aztecs -- Incorporate in Rome -- The cook and the cannibal -- Cannibal ethics -- Chapter Two I will not eat with you: failures of commensality in The Merchant of Venice -- Your prophet the Nazarite -- The devil incarnation -- Failures of eating -- Old Gobbo's doves -- Missed meals -- I'll set you forth -- Laws of blood -- Justice and commensality -- Usurers of the heart -- Part II Communion and community -- Chapter Three Anne Askew, John Bale, and the stakes of eating -- The mouth of martyrdom -- Bale's Askew, Askew's Bale -- Metaphorics of eating I: the eating mouth and the speaking mouth -- Metaphorics of eating II: bellye feadynge, sowle eatynge -- Metaphorics of eating III: hongrye wolfe, innocent lambe -- This is my (textual) body -- Incorporation and community -- Toward an ethics of sacred eating -- Writing as recipe -- Excursus -- Chapter Four How to eat a book -- Eating books -- Books of eating -- Attributing the recipe -- Ann, Lady Fanshawe -- Lady Fanshawe's receipt collection -- Lady Fanshawe's memoir -- Hospitable manuscripts -- Chapter Five Eaters of Eden -- In solitude what happiness? -- Missing meals -- The eaters -- or, inventing hospitality -- The eaten -- The eating -- Eve separate -- Forever happy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
