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Gluttony and Gratitude:

Milton's Philosophy of Eating
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Explores the philosophical significance of gluttony in Paradise Lost, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

A Note on the Text

Introduction: “Unsavory Food Perhaps”

1. Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Views of Gluttony

2. An Anatomy of Gluttony in Paradise Lost

3. Scatology and Devilish Glut in Paradise Lost

4. Perfect Consumption, the Food of the Gods, and the Great Chain of Eating

5. The Food of Love, the Paradise Within, Augustinian Triads, and the Body Resurrected

6. The Temperate Poet and “This Flying Steed Unrein’d”

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Quite a good book of its kind, its particular virtue being the scope of its inquiry, which extends from heaven to hell and from the garden of Eden to the fallen present, in the process offering an integrated overview of the role of dietary concerns in Milton’s work.”

—Bruce Boehrer, Modern Philology

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