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Tasting difference : food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shahani, Gitanjali (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Food in literature.
Food habits in literature.
Race in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Cultural relations in literature.
Colonies in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
English literature > Early modern.
1500-1700
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Spices : "the spicèd Indian air" in Shakespeare's England
  • Sugar : "so sweet was ne'er so fatal"
  • Coffee : eating Othello, drinking coffee
  • Bizarre foods : food, filth, and the foreign in the culinary contact zone
  • Cannibal foods : "powdered wife" and other tales of English cannibalism.