Gluttony and Gratitude Milton’s Philosophy of Eating / Emily E. Stelzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stelzer, Emily E.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.

Milton, John.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press 2018.

Summary:

Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve's sin as one of gluttony-and the evidence for Milton's adaptation of this tradition-has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the first book-length work on the philosophical significance of gluttony in this poem, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton's writing. Working with contextual material in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology, and literature and building on recent scholarship on Milton's experience of and knowledge about matter and the body, Stelzer draws connections between Milton's work and both underexamined textual influences (including, for example, Gower's Confessio Amantis) and well-recognized ones (such as Augustine's City of God and Galen's On the Natural Faculties).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on the Text

Introduction: “Unsavory Food Perhaps”

Chapter One: Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Views of Gluttony

Chapter Two: An Anatomy of Gluttony in Paradise Lost

Chapter Three: Scatology and Devilish Glut in Paradise Lost

Chapter Four: Perfect Consumption, the Food of the Gods, and the Great Chain of Eating

Chapter Five: The Food of Love, the Paradise Within, Augustinian Triads, and the Body Resurrected

Chapter Six: The Temperate Poet and “This Flying Steed Unrein’d"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-271-08983-0

OCLC:

1227051056