Eating and Becoming: Ethics and Poetics of Commensality from Donne to Milton

我的研究将追溯早期现代英国文学中的道德和诗学的共同性，或一起吃饭，特别是研究从多恩到米尔顿的诗人作品中的愿望和融合之间的关系。接受了大卫·戈尔茨坦的呼吁“饮食哲学的新范式.我的项目将考虑在蒂莫西·赖斯所谓的自我的联锁'领域'通过访问早期现代英语文学中的四个地点的非正式性：祭坛，书籍，宴会，和花园。我将考察约翰·多恩和乔治赫伯特的圣餐诗学;亨利·沃恩对赫伯特诗学的融合中文学影响的“喂养关系”;琼森和赫里克关于食物和饮料的诗歌中的欢乐和社交;以及乡村住宅诗歌中对人类主人的热情好客和米尔顿的《失乐园》中对上帝，神圣主人的热情好客的伦理。在早期现代英国想象中，饮食、渴望和道德之间的关系尚未得到充分的探索，这个项目将试图重新构建，从而重新定义作为其主题的作者群体对这三者的处理;它将同时开辟与艺术史、医学史和神学进行跨学科对话的途径。

My research will trace the ethics and poetics of commensality, or eating together, in early modern English literature, examining in particular the relationship between aspiration and incorporation in the works of poets from Donne to Milton. Taking up David Goldstein's call for 'a new paradigm for philosophies of eating...that begins in the early modern mouth' and drawing on Maggie Kilgour's concepts of communion and cannibalism as categories of ethical relationality, my project will consider the place of eating in what Timothy Reiss calls the interlocking 'spheres' of selfhood by visiting four sites of commensality in early modern English literature: the altar, the book, the feast, and the garden. I will examine the eucharistic poetics of John Donne and George Herbert; the 'feeding relation' of literary influence in Henry Vaughan's incorporation of Herbert's poetics; conviviality and sociability in Jonson and Herrick's poetry of food and drink; and the ethics of hospitality towards a human host in country house poetry and towards God, the divine host, in Milton's Paradise Lost. Drawing out the underexplored relationships between eating, aspiration, and ethics in the early modern English imaginary, this project will be an attempt to reframe and so redefine the treatment of all three by the constellation of authors whom it takes as its subjects; it will, at the same time, open up avenues of interdisciplinary dialogue with the history of art, history of medicine, and theology.