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The Literature of Food - An Introduction from 1830 to Present (Paperback)
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The Literature of Food - An Introduction from 1830 to Present (Paperback)
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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. Carefully designed and structured for
use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it
examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel
and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook
books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of
the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in
infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food
is always richer and stranger than we think.
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