Nicola Humble (UK University of Roehampton)

The Literature of Food

An Introduction from 1830 to Present

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering every aspect of food within literary texts, from experimental cook books to the sumptuous dinner parties at the heart of every Victorian Novel, The Literature of Food is the first comprehensive study of its kind and a must-buy for students on literature and food courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780857854568
• ISBN-10: 0857854569
• Artikelnr.: 43615687

Autorenporträt

Nicola Humble is Professor of English at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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Acknowledgements
Introduction, Food as Chimera - Strangeness and the Everyday
1. The Politics of Food: Hunger
2. The Difficult Dinner Party: Food as Performance in Nineteenth- and Early
Twentieth-Century Fiction
3. Kitchen Politics: The Coming and Going of the British Servant
4. Gender: Cooks, Chefs, Bon Viveurs and Domestic Goddesses
5. Modernist Food/Modern Food: Literary and Culinary Experiments in the
Early Twentieth Century
6. Fantasies of Food in Children's Literature
7. Reading Recipes
8. Down the Alimentary Canal: Food, Digestion and Disgust
Conclusion: Go to Work on an Egg
Bibliography
Notes