| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"Examines the colonial histories of everyday foods like sugar, spices, and coffee, arguing that that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Food in literature.
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Food in literature. |
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Food habits in literature.
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Food habits in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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Cultural relations in literature.
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Cultural relations in literature. |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shahani, Gitanjali. Tasting difference Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501748707 (DLC) 2019026547 |
| ISBN |
9781501748721 electronic book |
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1501748726 electronic book |
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9781501748714 electronic book |
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1501748718 electronic book |
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9781501748707 hardcover |
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