The Fury of Men's Gullets : : Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal / / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Boehrer, Bruce Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Jonson and Alimentary Theory --; 1. The Genealogy of Manners --; 2. Renaissance Overeating --; 3. A Well-Digested Work --; 4. The Ordure of Things --; 5. Jonson's Crudities --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512800890; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512800890
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bruce Thomas Boehrer.

In The Fury of Men's Gullets, Bruce Boehrer explores the poet's fascination with alimentary matters and the ways in which such references describe Jonson's personal and cultural transformation. In his wide-ranging examination of Jonson's plays, prose, and nondramatic verse, Boehrer discusses the sociohistorical significance of food, the politics of conspicuous consumption, the infrastructure of Jacobean London, and pertinent aspects of Renaissance medical practice and physiological theory. The Fury of Men's Gullets uniquely interprets Jonson's construction of early modern English literary sensibility.