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The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction /

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The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts.  It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issu...

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Main Author: Cozzi, Annette (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Nineteenth-century major lives and letters.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
European literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts.  It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 223 pages)
ISBN:9780230117525
DOI:10.1057/9780230117525