Food and the literary imagination /
People, international agencies and governments are increasingly concerned about the nature of our food, where it comes from and the conditions in which it is produced. By close reading of a wide sweep of historical literature, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats and George Eliot, Food and...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Authors List of abbreviations Notes on Literary Texts and Note on Usage Prologue. Food Security and the Literary Imagination 1. Food Matters 2. The Field in Time 3. Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food 4. Remembering the Land in Shakespeare's Plays 5. Keats's Ode 'To Autumn': Touching the Stubble Plains 6. The Mill in Time: George Eliot and the New Agronomy Epilogue. The Literary Imagination and the Future of Food Notes and References Select Bibliography Index.