Emily E. Stelzer is Assistant Professor of Literature and Program Director for English and Great Texts at Houston Baptist University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TextIntroduction: “Unsavory Food Perhaps”1. Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Views of Gluttony2. An Anatomy of Gluttony in Paradise Lost3. Scatology and Devilish Glut in Paradise Lost4. Perfect Consumption, the Food of the Gods, and the Great Chain of Eating5. The Food of Love, the Paradise Within, Augustinian Triads, and the Body Resurrected6. The Temperate Poet and “This Flying Steed Unrein’d”NotesBibliographyIndex

“Quite a good book of its kind, its particular virtue being the scope of its inquiry, which extends from heaven to hell and from the garden of Eden to the fallen present, in the process offering an integrated overview of the role of dietary concerns in Milton’s work.”—Bruce Boehrer Modern Philology

Emily E. Stelzer is Assistant Professor of Literature and Program Director for English and Great Texts at Houston Baptist University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TextIntroduction: “Unsavory Food Perhaps”1. Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Views of Gluttony2. An Anatomy of Gluttony in Paradise Lost3. Scatology and Devilish Glut in Paradise Lost4. Perfect Consumption, the Food of the Gods, and the Great Chain of Eating5. The Food of Love, the Paradise Within, Augustinian Triads, and the Body Resurrected6. The Temperate Poet and “This Flying Steed Unrein’d”NotesBibliographyIndex

“Quite a good book of its kind, its particular virtue being the scope of its inquiry, which extends from heaven to hell and from the garden of Eden to the fallen present, in the process offering an integrated overview of the role of dietary concerns in Milton’s work.”—Bruce Boehrer Modern Philology

Emily E. Stelzer is Assistant Professor of Literature and Program Director for English and Great Texts at Houston Baptist University.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on the TextIntroduction: “Unsavory Food Perhaps”1. Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Views of Gluttony2. An Anatomy of Gluttony in Paradise Lost3. Scatology and Devilish Glut in Paradise Lost4. Perfect Consumption, the Food of the Gods, and the Great Chain of Eating5. The Food of Love, the Paradise Within, Augustinian Triads, and the Body Resurrected6. The Temperate Poet and “This Flying Steed Unrein’d”NotesBibliographyIndex

“Quite a good book of its kind, its particular virtue being the scope of its inquiry, which extends from heaven to hell and from the garden of Eden to the fallen present, in the process offering an integrated overview of the role of dietary concerns in Milton’s work.”—Bruce Boehrer Modern Philology