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The Literature of Food: An Introduction from 1830 to Present

The Literature of Food: An Introduction from 1830 to Present

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Literary CriticismAnthropologyAgriculture

ISBN10: 0857854569
ISBN13: 9780857854568
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 6 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? 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.

Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves.

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