It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader by Jason Scott-Warren
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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...
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader by Jason Scott-Warren is 190 pages long, and a total of 47,500 words.
This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 19 minutes to read Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader aloud.
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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