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A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England(Studies in Renaissance Literature)

A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England(Studies in Renaissance Literature)


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By discussing diverse social contexts - from the Inns of Court to rural Derbyshire - contributors ask what kinds of etiquettes and rituals governed different drinking communities in the seventeenth century. What was the significance of particular drink for particular social contexts? How exclusive were drinking communities? And what happened when outsiders breached these coteries? The role of gender in drinking and sociability in considered, including the ambiguous figure of the female drinker: was alcohol a source of female empowerment or a mechanism to enforce a patriarchal culture? The influence of particular kinds of drink - claret, port, beer, ale, cider, perry - and particular kinds of drinkers in generating discourses of politics, nationalism, and xenophobia is considered; and the received views of moderation and excess are analysed: while early modern medicinal tracts championed measured drinking of wine and beer as a cure for sickness, drunkenness was consistently and dramatically aligned with physical decay, madness and sedition. The range of texts discussed is broad: popular broadside ballads and husbandry manuals; dramatic works; verse collections; manuscript miscellanies; scientific and medical tracts; and political treaties. Contributors: STELLA ACHILLEOS, KAREN BRITLAND, CEDRIC C. BROWN, TANYA CASSIDY, LOUISE HILL CURTH, ANGELA MCSHANE JONES, MARIKA KEBLUSEK, CHARLES C. LUDINGTON, CHARLOTTE MCBRIDE, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, SUSAN J. OWEN, VITTORIA DI PALMA, ADAM SMYTH.

Table of Contents:
Sons of Beer and Sons of Ben: Drink as a Social Marker in Seventeenth-Century England - Cedric C Brown The Anacreontea and a Tradition of Refined Male Sociability - Stella Achilleos Tavern Societies, the Inns of Court, and the Culture of Conviviality in Early Seventeenth-Century London - Michelle O'Callaghan Wine for Comfort: Drinking and the Royalist Exile Experience, 1642-1660 - Marika Keblusek Roaring Royalists and Ranting Brewers: the Politicisation of Drink and Drunkenness in Political Broadside Ballads from 1640 to 16891689 - Angela McShane 'Be sometimes to your country true': the Politics of Wine in England, 1660-1714 - Charles C Ludington Circe's Cup: Wine and Women in Early Modern Drama - Karen Britland Drink, Sex and Power in Restoration Comedy - Susan J Owen 'Health, Strength and Happiness': Medical Constructions of Wine and Beer in Early Modern England [with Tanya Cassidy] - Louise Curth 'Health, Strength and Happiness': Medical Constructions of Wine and Beer in Early Modern England [with Louise Curth] - Tanya Cassidy Drinking Cider in Paradise: Science, Improvement, and the Politics of Fruit-Trees - Vittoria Di Palma A Natural Drink for an English Man: National Stereotyping in Early Modern Culture - Charlotte McBride 'It were far better to be a Toad, or a Serpant, then a Drunkart': Writing about Drunkenness - Adam Smyth

About the Author :
ANGELA MCSHANE is Hon. Reader in History at the University of Warwick.

Review :
Raises important, new questions and constructs some key themes that point the way for future research. Handsomely produced and a pleasure to read... Provides a welcome addition to a lively field and an invitation for further interdisciplinary exchange. Makes a worthwhile contribution to the new cultural history. [...] To date, we have possessed good publications on drinking venues in early modern England and drinking habits in modern times, but this collection breaks new ground in connecting the two.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781843840091
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: D.S. Brewer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 242
  • Sub Title: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 184384009X
  • Publisher Date: 26 Aug 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Studies in Renaissance Literature
  • Weight: 702 gr


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