The literature of food : an introduction from 1830 to present /
The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods, the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the polit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2020].
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| Summary: | The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods, the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. |
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| Physical Description: | 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-283) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857854568 0857854569 9780857854551 0857854550 |