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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of 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