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This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of
drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in
this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives,
including literature, history, anthropology and the history of
medicine.
This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of
drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in
this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives,
including literature, history, anthropology and the history of
medicine.
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.
Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the
Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a
prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot,
which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of
Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of
revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil,
and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the
use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural
context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge
tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their
essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements
create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only
rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge
about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An
interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic
providentialism is taken into account.
In academic as well as in public debates, audiovisual media have
often been accused of perpetuating gender stereotypes and of
confronting viewers time and again with traditional role models and
binary concepts of masculinity and femininity. In recent years,
films, television series and music videos increasingly have shown
women and men who transgress the traditional gender dichotomy. One
of the central ideas behind this volume is the attempt to bring
together explorations of 'gendering' in different audiovisual
media. The contributions seek to explore in particular shifting
constructions of femininity and masculinity and aim to provide
further insight into the media- and genre-specific ways of
constructing, perpetuating and challenging gender concepts in
audiovisual media, taking into consideration the interplay of the
different levels on which gendering occurs in them. Thus, two
articles in the present volume address the processes of
constructing, perpetuating and challenging notions of femininity
and masculinity in music videos, while other contributions are
dedicated to the analysis of gendering in films and/or TV series.
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