Robert Appelbaum

Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections

Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns

376 pages, 21 halftones  6 x 9  © 2006

Cloth $32.50

ISBN: 9780226021263   Published December 2006

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• Synopsis
• Table of Contents
• Bio

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Texts
CHAPTER ONE-Aguecheek's Beef, Hamlet's Baked Meat
CHAPTER TWO-The Sensational Science
CHAPTER THREE-The Cookbook As Literature
CHAPTER FOUR-The Food of Wishes, from Cockaigne to Utopia
CHAPTER FIVE-Food of Regret                                                            CHAPTER SIX-Belch's Hiccup
CHAPTER SEVEN-Cannibals and Missionaries
CONCLUSION-Crusoe's Friday, Rousseau's Émile

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Subjects

• History: American History
• History: British History
• History: European History
• Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory

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