Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2019.7

Text, food and the ear­ly mod­ern read­er eat­ing words
In ear­ly mod­ern cul­ture, eat­ing and read­ing were entan­gled acts. Our dead metaphors (swal­lowed sto­ries, over­cooked nar­ra­tives, digest­ed infor­ma­tion) are all that now remains of a rich inter­play between text and food, in which every ele­ment of din­ing, from prepa­ra­tion to pur­ga­tion, had its equiv­a­lent in the lit­er­ary sphere. Fol­low­ing the advice of the poet George Her­bert, this essay col­lec­tion „looks to the mouth“, unfold­ing the charged rela­tion­ship between inges­tion and expres­sion in a wide vari­ety of texts and con­texts. With con­tri­bu­tions from lead­ing schol­ars in the field, Text, Food and the Ear­ly Mod­ern Read­er: Eat­ing Words fills a sig­nif­i­cant gap in our under­stand­ing of ear­ly mod­ern cul­tur­al his­to­ry. Sit­u­at­ed at the live­ly inter­sec­tion between lit­er­ary, his­tor­i­cal and bib­li­o­graph­i­cal stud­ies, it opens new lines of dia­logue between the study of mate­r­i­al tex­tu­al­i­ty and the his­to­ry of the body.
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Laugh­ter, lit­er­a­ture, vio­lence, 1840–1930
Laugh­ter, Lit­er­a­ture, Vio­lence, 1840–1930 inves­ti­gates the strange, com­plex, even para­dox­i­cal rela­tion­ship between laugh­ter, on the one hand, and vio­lence, war, hor­ror, death, on the oth­er. It does so in rela­tion to phi­los­o­phy, pol­i­tics, and key nine­teenth- and twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry lit­er­ary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyn­d­ham Lewis and Kather­ine Mans­field – texts which explore the far reach­es of Schaden­freude, and so-called ‘supe­ri­or­i­ty the­o­ries’ of laugh­ter, push­ing these the­o­ries to break­ing point. In these lit­er­ary texts, the vio­lent supe­ri­or­i­ty often ascribed to laugh­ter is seen as rad­i­cal­ly unsta­ble, co-exist­ing with its oppo­site: an anar­chic sense of equal­i­ty. Laugh­ter, humour and com­e­dy are slip­pery, duplic­i­tous, ambiva­lent, self-con­tra­dic­to­ry hybrids, fus­ing appar­ent­ly dis­cor­dant ele­ments. Now and then, though, lit­er­ary and philo­soph­i­cal texts also dream of a dif­fer­ent kind of laugh­ter, one which reach­es beyond its alloys – a tran­scen­dent, ‘per­fect’ laugh­ter which exists only in and for itself.
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