Reading and writing recipe books, 1550-1800 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dimeo, Michelle; Pennell, Sara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific, linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science, divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations invested in, and uses of, recipes and recipe books. By exploring areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography) position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern scholars and graduate students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526129901
• Artikelnr.: 54539426

Autorenporträt

Michelle DiMeo is S. Gordon Castigliano Director of Digital Library Initiatives in the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Roehampton, London

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements
Abbreviations 1. Introduction Sara Pennell and Michelle DiMeo PART I:
Methodologies 2. Authorship and medical networks: reading attributions in
early modern manuscript recipe books' Michelle DiMeo 3. 'A practical art':
an archaeological perspective on the use of recipe books Annie Gray 4.
Genre conventions in English recipes, 1600-1800 Francisco Alonso- Almeida
PART II: Textuality and intertextuality 5. Reading recipe books and
culinary history: opening a new field Gilly Lehmann 6. The 'Quintessence of
Wit': poems and recipes in early modern women's writing Jayne Elisabeth
Archer 7. The Foote sisters' Compleat Housewife: cookery texts as a source
in lived religion Lauren F. Winner PART III: Cultures of circulation and
transmission 8. Cooking the books, or, the three faces of Hannah Woolley
Margaret J. M. Ezell 9. Crossing the boundaries: domestic recipe
collections in early modern Wales Alun Withey 10. 'Lett her refrain from
all hott spices': medicinal recipes and advice in the treatment of the
King's Evil in seventeenth-century south-west England Anne Stobart 11.
Making livings, lives and archives: tales of four eighteenth-century recipe
books Sara Pennell Select Bibliography Index