Gluttony
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This brief history of gluttony traces the changing cultural attitudes towards food and pleasure, scarcity and abundance. It reveals how notions of saintliness and purity have helped form modern views of enjoyment, self-mortification and ultimately nutrition.
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- Full title :Gluttony / Francine Prose
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This brief history of gluttony traces the changing cultural attitudes towards food and pleasure, scarcity and abundance. It reveals how notions of saintliness and purity have helped form modern views of enjoyment, self-mortification and ultimately nutrition.
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- Publication Date:2003
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New York Public Library, Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 108 s
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0195156994, 9780195156997
- oclc:ocn786496939
- LC Classification:BV4627.G5
- Dewey Decimal:178
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