The Barbarous Feast : Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gee, Sophie.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novel In The Barbarous Feast , Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Beginning and an Ending

I. Bronte Gully

1. Do This in Remembrance of Me

II. Meat: Port Albert

2. Viper Mind

III. Amphibious Believers

3. Friday's Cannibal Nature

IV. Water and Wine: Beechworth

4. Eating Flesh and Eating Dirt

V. Oyster Mind

5. You Say "Bonano

VI. The Inner Lives of Mangroves

6. Eating and Believing in Tom Jones

VII. Hungry Stomach: Binginwarri

Appendix: The Sacrament from Calvin to Locke

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-20973-1

0-691-29023-7

OCLC:

1591751848