This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the
nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has
focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and
theory of the novel, uncovering the "food plot" against which the
marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the
emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links
between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became
animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food
plot. Charting the shifting relationship between these plots, from
Jane Austen's polite meals to Bram Stoker's bloodthirsty vampires,
this book sheds new light on some of the best-know works of
nineteenth-century literature and pushes forward understandings of
narrative, literary character, biopolitics, and the novel as a
form. From Austen to Zombies, Michael Parrish Lee explores how the
food plot conflicts with the marriage plot in nineteenth-century
literature and beyond, and how appetite keeps rising up against
taste and intellect. Lee's book will be of interest to
Victorianists, genre theorists, Food Studies, and theorists of bare
life and biopolitics. - Regenia Gagnier, Professor of English,
University of Exeter In The Food Plot Michael Lee engages recent
and classic scholarship and brings fresh and provocative readings
to well worked literary critical ground. Drawing upon narrative
theory, character study, theories of sexuality, and political
economy, Professor Lee develops a refreshing and satisfyingly deep
new reading of canonical novels as he develops the concept of the
food plot. The Food Plot should be of interest to specialists in
the novel and food studies, as well as students and general
readers. - Professor April Bullock, California State University,
Fullerton, USA
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