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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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, 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.