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

By Bruce Thomas Boehrer

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234081
• ISBN13: 9780812234084
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great scholarship, written with wit.

As a student of Prof. Boehrer, some years back, I heard portions of this book while he was working on it. His writing is tight with fact and ideas and sharpened by exquisite irony of language. This book starts being witty at the title. Palatability increases thereafter.