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Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance: Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult

Autor Aaron Hostetter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 oct 2017
Political Appetites: Food in Medieval English Romance is the first book-length examination of the cultural and theoretical resonances of food and cooking in medieval English literature, offering a new assessment of the vexed and critically underappreciated genre of romance. Aaron Hostetter moves beyond the critical assumptions of the food practices of medieval English culture as only reflecting Eucharistic preoccupations. Focusing on the romance literature of England, from tenth-century hagiographic verse to fifteenth-century courtly adventures, he also engages the politics of secular eating. Focus on the edible allows Political Appetites to apply fresh insights from cultural studies and critical theory to these narratives—to adumbrate their unique political perspectives. The analysis of food reveals these stories to be sophisticated responses to the material and political conditions of their day.
  
If humanity has attempted through its brief history to render the material world edible, then food and food practice not only influence our aspirations but also shift focus to the limits of human existence on this planet. In studying the foodways of the past as a fundamental economic activity, Political Appetites questions contemporary attitudes towards consumption as their proliferation and abuses create social inequities, menace ecosystems, and threaten to bring about the end of the Anthropocene Era.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814254424
ISBN-10: 081425442X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult


Recenzii

“Political Appetites is engaging, is a solid example of an interdisciplinary approach to reading literature, and takes a fresh approach to medieval texts.” —Sarah Gordon, author of Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature

Notă biografică

Aaron Hostetter is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University–Camden.

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Eating is fundamental to human survival, obtained by and resulting in much social struggle. Political Appetites by Aaron Hostetter theorizes the imaginative uses of food and food practice in medieval English romance literature as political and economic critique.