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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 work on the philosophical significance of gluttony in this poem, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing. Working with contextual material in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology, and literature and building on recent scholarship on Milton’s experience of and knowledge about matter and the body, Stelzer draws connections between Milton’s work and both underexamined textual influences (including, for example, Gower’s __Confessio Amantis__) and well-recognized ones (such as Augustine’s __City of God__ and Galen’s __On the Natural Faculties__).

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Author

Emily E. Stelzer

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271081007

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction