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"The Hungry Soul": Sacramental Appetite and the Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel Writing

"The Hungry Soul": Sacramental Appetite and the Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel... ``The Hungry Soul'' Sacramental Appetite and the Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel Writing H E I D I O B E R H O LT Z E R L E E University of Notre Dame From Mary Rowlandson's feast on fetal fawn and horse liver to Elizabeth Hanson's meal of beaver ``guts and garbage,'' early American captivity narratives reverberate with religious women's graphic descriptions of the meals they eat during captivity. A number of critics, such as Mitchell Breitwieser, Julia Stern, and Rebecca Blevins Faery, have briefly addressed such vivid portraits of food and disgruntled dining as markers of captives' grief, pain, and gradual acculturation to native ways.1 These captive authors' references to eating, however, are central to their narratives and have implications for their texts far beyond those passages explicitly about cuisine. Their descriptions of food evince a larger hermeneutics of appetite through which these writers narrate, read, and even experience their environments. Both the New England captivity narratives and the Puritan, Quaker, and Catholic missionary accounts that I address later in this article advance what I call a ``gustatory theology,'' or a system of belief that articulates religious truths and understandings of the divine http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal University of Pennsylvania Press

"The Hungry Soul": Sacramental Appetite and the Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel Writing

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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Copyright © 2005 The McNeil Center for Early American Studies. All rights reserved.
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1559-0895
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Abstract

``The Hungry Soul'' Sacramental Appetite and the Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel Writing H E I D I O B E R H O LT Z E R L E E University of Notre Dame From Mary Rowlandson's feast on fetal fawn and horse liver to Elizabeth Hanson's meal of beaver ``guts and garbage,'' early American captivity narratives reverberate with religious women's graphic descriptions of the meals they eat during captivity. A number of critics, such as Mitchell Breitwieser, Julia Stern, and Rebecca Blevins Faery, have briefly addressed such vivid portraits of food and disgruntled dining as markers of captives' grief, pain, and gradual acculturation to native ways.1 These captive authors' references to eating, however, are central to their narratives and have implications for their texts far beyond those passages explicitly about cuisine. Their descriptions of food evince a larger hermeneutics of appetite through which these writers narrate, read, and even experience their environments. Both the New England captivity narratives and the Puritan, Quaker, and Catholic missionary accounts that I address later in this article advance what I call a ``gustatory theology,'' or a system of belief that articulates religious truths and understandings of the divine

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Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary JournalUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Oct 23, 2005

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