[Sca-cooks] "The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance"
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The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance
Author: Hostetter, Aaron Kenneth
Publication info: Princeton University, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations
Publishing, 2011. 3445552.
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Abstract: 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. 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. 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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Subject: Medieval literature; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0297: Medieval literature; 0593: British and Irish
literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Eating,
Cooking, Romances, Middle Ages
Title: The politics of eating and cooking in medieval English romance
Number of pages: 246
Publication year: 2011
Degree date: 2011
School code: 0181
Source: DAI-A 72/04, Oct 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781124488899
Advisor: Smith, D. Vance, Davis, Kathleen
University/institution: Princeton University
University location: United States -- New Jersey
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3445552
ProQuest document ID: 854862261
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://searc
h.proquest.com/docview/854862261?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2011
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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