Reading and Writing Recipe Books, 15501800

Informationen zum Autor Sara Pennell is Senior Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Roehampton, London Michelle DiMeo is S. Gordon Castigliano Director of Digital Library Initiatives in the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Klappentext The book will be of interest to students and academic in Literature, cultural studies, material culture and the history of medicine Zusammenfassung The book will be of interest to students and academic in Literature! cultural studies! material culture and the history of medicine -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Gray4. 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

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Dimeo, Michelle Pennell Dimeo, MEO MICHELLE DI ED, Sara Pennell
• Assisted by: Michelle Dimeo (Editor), DiMeo Michelle (Editor), Sara Pennell (Editor), Pennell Sara (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9780719087271
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8727-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); England, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, c 1500 onwards to present day, Food & society, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, General cookery and recipes, Literature: history and criticism, Cultural studies: food and society