The discourses of food in nineteenth-century British fiction / Annette Cozzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cozzi, Annette, 1966-

Series:

Nineteenth-century major lives and letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865--Criticism and interpretation.

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn.

Hardy, Thomas, 1752-1832--Criticism and interpretation.

Hardy, Thomas.

Food in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources,from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Belly of a Nation * PART I: Eating English * Corn Kings: Disraeli, Hardy, and the Reconciliation of Nations * Men and Menus: Dickens and the Rise of the "Ordinary" English Gentleman * "I have no country" Domesticating the Generic National Woman * PART II: Alien Appetites * "Miss Sharp adores pork": Ingesting India from The Missionary to The Moonstone * Blood and Rum: Power and the Racialization of the Victorian Monster * Conclusion: The Bill of Fare-Thee-Well.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230104334

0230104339

OCLC:

601137928