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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating - The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature (Hardcover)
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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating - The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature (Hardcover)
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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 bete humaine. It is
this vexing binary approach to eating and food that 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.
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