Literature of Food

Literature of Food

EnglishPaperback / softback
Humble Nicola
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
EAN: 9780857854568
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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.

EAN 9780857854568
ISBN 0857854569
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date February 6, 2020
Pages 296
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 156
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors HUMBLE NICOLA
Illustrations 25 bw illus
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