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The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal

The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal

by Bruce Thomas Boehrer (Author), Bruce Thomas Boehrer (Author)

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    Hardcover 1997

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 250
 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 01 Jan 1997
ISBN 10: 0812234081
ISBN 13: 9780812234084

Media Reviews

Bruce Thomas Boehrer's resourceful sifting of Jonson's plays focuses on the network of tentacular roots animating their language. His concern to explore the furthest reaches of Jonson's metaphors of writing as ingestion, digestion, and excretion, might even be termed fundamental. It certainly hits pay-dirt. -London Review of Books

Author Bio
Bruce Thomas Boehrer is Bertram H. Davis Professor of English at Florida State University. A life-long parrot fancier, he is the author of Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird and The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.