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Hostetter, Aaron Kenneth.

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The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance./
Author:	Hostetter, Aaron Kenneth.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3445552
ISBN:	9781124488899

The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance.
Hostetter, Aaron Kenneth.

The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance. - 245 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2011.

The imaginative seat of English narrative poetry lies in the stomach. Itself a delectable genre---a stew of images, idioms, ideas, and inspirations---romance derives part of its pleasure and purpose from representations of the material processes of food. Authors of romance frequently mobilize scenes of cooking and consumption to dramatize political and economic tensions in aristocratic culture---tensions that may expose the ideological roots lying beneath the elaborate literary productions of England. The imagination of food in these vernacular narratives, I argue, caters to the wide world around.

ISBN: 9781124488899Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance.
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520 $a The imaginative seat of English narrative poetry lies in the stomach. Itself a delectable genre---a stew of images, idioms, ideas, and inspirations---romance derives part of its pleasure and purpose from representations of the material processes of food. Authors of romance frequently mobilize scenes of cooking and consumption to dramatize political and economic tensions in aristocratic culture---tensions that may expose the ideological roots lying beneath the elaborate literary productions of England. The imagination of food in these vernacular narratives, I argue, caters to the wide world around.
520 $a The Politics of Eating and Cooking ranges across the literary history of the English Middle Ages, beginning in the Anglo-Saxon era, taking a detour into Old French, and wrapping up in the Middle English of the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. As technology and taste change over time, the representation of food and eating stays rather more conservative. Political questions may shift and vary, but the signifying, authorizing power of cuisine endures. This is because food reminds us of our basic condition in the world, material and spiritual: our relationship to labor; our concern with status, our relation to government; our yearning for a narrative of historical progress.
520 $a As all my sites of argument suggest, food plays a fundamental role in medieval romance. Food imagery implies a sacrament, but also takes the measure of an often brutal material world. The Politics of Eating and Cooking , in its widest scope, shows how the political imaginary of medieval narratives emanates from the symbolic, material, and phenomenological presence of food. Food imagery draws the exotic into the quotidian world and brings a resonant mythography to the material bases of social power. Key to the examination of serious social and economic problems, eating and cooking expose the social artifices and the artistic skill of literary works through which culture reads its illuminations and shadows.
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