Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature (Hardcover)

Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Directions in Religion and Literature
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Lesa Scholl
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-25651-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-350-25651-X
Barcode:	9781350256514

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