Screen LibraryThe literature of food : an introduction from 1830 to present /
This book concerns itself with two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined, and with their continually shifting relationship. This important new book is the first systematic study of the literature of food from the nineteenth century to the present, covering a wide range of issues including the po...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book concerns itself with two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined, and with their continually shifting relationship. This important new book is the first systematic study of the literature of food from the nineteenth century to the present, covering a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, disgust and erotics. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, the author demonstrates how the reading of food within texts can illuminate our reading of food outside them. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it considers the food of modernism, post-modernism, crime fiction, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-283) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780857854551 0857854550 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/H919 |
| Contents: | Food as chimera -- Strangeness and the everyday -- The politics of food : hunger -- The difficult dinner party : food as performance in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction -- Kitchen politics: the coming and going of the British servant -- Gender : cooks, chefs, bon viveurs and domestic goddesses -- Modernist food / modern food : literary and culinary experiments in the early twentieth century -- Fantasies of food in children's literature -- Reading recipes -- Down the alimentary canal : food, digestion and disgust -- Conclusion : go to work on an egg. |