Emily Stelzer’s Latest: GLUTTONY AND GRATITUDE
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November 2017 | 350 pages | cloth | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0708-2
Book Information:
Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve’s sin as one of gluttony — and the evidence for Milton’s adaptation of this tradition — has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the first book-length work on the philosophical significance of gluttony in this poem, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing. Stelzer works with contextual material in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology, and literature and builds from recent scholarship on Milton’s experience of and knowledge about matter and the body to draw connections between Milton’s work and both underexamined textual influences (including, for example, Gower’s Confessio Amantis) and well recognized ones (such as Augustine’s City of God and Galen’s On the Natural Faculties).
Author Information:
EMILY E. STELZER iis assistant professor of literature and program director for English and Great Texts at Houston Baptist University.
https://www.dupress.duq.edu/products/gluttony-and-gratitude-miltons-philosophy-of-eating
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Though Russell Kirk only wrote two speeches for Senator Barry Goldwater, they were very, very good speeches.
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From a response, “Republican Virtue, Democratic Spirit,” delivered on April 7, 2009, at Hillsdale College to Paul Rahe’s excellent work on Alexis De Tocqueville.
To put it simply (and perhaps a bit “simplistically”—but I prefer to think of it as putting it “with fervor”), Christopher Dawson was one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, certainly one of its greatest men of letters, and perhaps one of the most respected Catholic scholars in the English speaking world. I’ve have had the opportunity and privilege to argue this elsewhere, including here at the majestic The Imaginative Conservative. I would even go so far as to claim that Dawson was THE historian of the past 100 years.
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