A history of food in literature : from the fourteenth century to the present / Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyce, Charlotte, author.

Fitzpatrick, Joan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in literature.

Food habits in literature.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 313 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

When novels, plays and poems refer to food, they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body, subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books, diaries and guides to good health, in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Pilgrims and partridges (1350-1550) / Joan Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Joan 15

Piers Plowman (late 1300s) / William Langland Langland, William 16

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 1300s) / Anon. 28

The Canterbury Tales (late 1300s) / Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer, Geoffrey 35

The Book of Margery Kempe (early 1400s) / Margery Kempe Kempe, Margery 52

2 Bodily health and spiritual wealth (1550-1650) / Joan Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Joan 63

The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596) / Edmund Spenser Spenser, Edmund 64

The Woman Hater (1607) / William Shakespeare, various works works, William Shakespeare, various, Francis Beaumont Beaumont, Francis, John Fletcher Fletcher, John 78

Volpone (1605), The Alchemist (1616) and Bartholomew Fair (1631) / Ben Jonson Jonson, Ben 91

3 Adventures in England and beyond its shores (1650-1750) / Joan Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Joan 114

Paradise Lost (1667) / John Milton Milton, John 115

Paradise Regained (1671) / John Milton Milton, John 124

Robinson Crusoe (1719) / Daniel Defoe Defoe, Daniel 129

Gulliver's Travels (1726) / Jonathan Swift Swift, Jonathan 135

Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749) / Henry Fielding Fielding, Henry 140

4 Luxury, gluttony, domestic economy and ethical eating (1750-1830) / Charlotte Boyce Boyce, Charlotte 153

The Tryal of the Lady Allurea Luxury (1757) / Anon. 154

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) / Tobias Smollett Smollett, Tobias 157

'The Fanner's Ingle' and 'To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on Their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel Johnson' (1773); Robert Burns, 'Address to a Haggis' and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' (1786) / Robert Fergusson Fergusson, Robert 161

Desmond (1792); Hannah More, The Way to Plenty (1795) and The Cottage Cook (1797) / Charlotte Smith Smith, Charlotte 164

A Poem on the African Slave Trade (1792) / Mary Birkett Birkett, Mary 171

Sense and Sensibility (1811), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816) / Jane Austen Austen, Jane 175

Queen Mob; A Philosophical Poem with Notes and A Vindication of Natural Diet (813); Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) / Percy Bysshe Shelley Shelley, Percy Bysshe 180

The Corsair (1814) and Don Juan (1819-1824) / George Gordon Gordon, George, Lord Byron Byron, Lord 184

Endymion (1818), The Fall of Hyperion (written c. 1819-1821), The Eve of St Agnes and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' (1820) / John Keats Keats, John 189

5 'Come buy, come buy ... I have no copper in my purse": hunger, indulgence, desire and adulteration (1830-1898) / Charlotte Boyce Boyce, Charlotte 201

Various works / Charles Dickens Dickens, Charles 203

Vanity Fair (1847-1848) / William Makepeace Thaekeray Thaekeray, William Makepeace 210

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848); Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) and Shirley (1849); Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847) / Anne Bronte Bronte, Anne 214

'Goblin Market' (1862) / Christina Rossetti Rossetti, Christina 222

'Brother Jacob' (1864) / George Eliot Eliot, George 226

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Class, and What Alice Found There (1871) / Lewis Carroll Carroll, Lewis 231

The Beth Book, Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (1897) / Sarah Grand Grand, Sarah 236

6 You are what you eat?: Food and the politics of identity (1899-2003) / Charlotte Boyce Boyce, Charlotte 248

Heart of Darkness (1899) and 'Falk: A Reminiscence' (1903) / Joseph Conrad Conrad, Joseph 249

Ulysses (1922) / James Joyce Joyce, James 254

To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Wanes (1931) / Virginia Woolf Woolf, Virginia 259

The Magic Toyshop (1967); Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969) / Angela Carter Carter, Angela 265

Midnight's Children (1981) / Salman Rushdie Rushdie, Salman 272

Fruit of the Lemon (1999); Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000); Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003) / Andrea Levy Levy, Andrea 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415840514

0415840511

9780415840521

041584052X

OCLC:

930255542