| The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal Contributor(s): Boehrer, Bruce Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812234081 ISBN-13: 9780812234084 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Renaissance |
| Dewey: 822.3 |
| LCCN: 97011661 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.33" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |