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. 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.
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. 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.
Charlotte Boyce is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Joan Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK.
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Chapter 1: Pilgrims and partridges (1350-1550); William Langland Piers Plowman (late 1300s); Anon. Gawain and the Green Knight (late 1300s); Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales (late 1300s); Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe (early 1400s); Chapter 2: Bodily health and spiritual wealth (1550-1640); Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596); Willliam Shakespeare various works; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Woman Hater (1607); Ben Jonson Valpone (1605) The Alchemist (1616) and Bartholomew Fair (1631); Chapter 3: Adventures in England and beyond its shores (1650-1750); John Milton Paradise Lost (1667); John Milton Paradise Regained (1671); Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719); Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (1729); Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749); Chapter 4: Luxuxy gluttony domestic economy and ethical eating (1750-1830); Anon. The Tryal of the Lady Allurea Luxury (1757); Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771); Robert Ferguson 'The Farmer'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); Charlotte Smith Desmond (1792); Hannah More The Way to Plenty (1795) and The Cottage Cook (1797); Mary Birkett A Poem on the African Slave Trade (1792); Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility (1811) Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815); Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem with Notes and A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813); Mary Shelley Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818); George Gordon Lord Byron The Corsair (1814) and Don Juan (c. 1819-1824); John Keats Endymion (1818) The Fall of Hyperion (written c. 1819-1821) The Eve of St. Agnes and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' (1820); Chapter 5: 'Come buy come buy . . . I have no copper in my purse': hunger indulgence desire and adulteration (1830-1898); Charles Dickens various works; William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (1847-1848); Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848); Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847) and Shirley (1849); Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847); Christina Rossetti 'Goblin Market' (1862); George Eliot 'Brother Jacob'; Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and Whaht Alice Found There (1871); Sarah Grand The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure a Woman of Genius (1897); Chapter 6: You are what you eat?: Food and the politics of identity (1899-2003); Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899) and 'Falk: A Reminiscence' (1903); James Joyce Ulysses (1922); Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931); Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop (1967) and Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman (1969); Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children (1981); Andrea Levy Fruit of the Lemon (1999) Zadie Smith White Teeth (2000) and Monica Ali Brick Lane (2003); Conclusion
Chapter 1: Pilgrims and partridges (1350-1550); William Langland Piers Plowman (late 1300s); Anon. Gawain and the Green Knight (late 1300s); Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales (late 1300s); Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe (early 1400s); Chapter 2: Bodily health and spiritual wealth (1550-1640); Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596); Willliam Shakespeare various works; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Woman Hater (1607); Ben Jonson Valpone (1605) The Alchemist (1616) and Bartholomew Fair (1631); Chapter 3: Adventures in England and beyond its shores (1650-1750); John Milton Paradise Lost (1667); John Milton Paradise Regained (1671); Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (1719); Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels (1729); Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749); Chapter 4: Luxuxy gluttony domestic economy and ethical eating (1750-1830); Anon. The Tryal of the Lady Allurea Luxury (1757); Tobias Smollett The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771); Robert Ferguson 'The Farmer'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); Charlotte Smith Desmond (1792); Hannah More The Way to Plenty (1795) and The Cottage Cook (1797); Mary Birkett A Poem on the African Slave Trade (1792); Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility (1811) Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815); Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem with Notes and A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813); Mary Shelley Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (1818); George Gordon Lord Byron The Corsair (1814) and Don Juan (c. 1819-1824); John Keats Endymion (1818) The Fall of Hyperion (written c. 1819-1821) The Eve of St. Agnes and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' (1820); Chapter 5: 'Come buy come buy . . . I have no copper in my purse': hunger indulgence desire and adulteration (1830-1898); Charles Dickens various works; William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (1847-1848); Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848); Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847) and Shirley (1849); Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights (1847); Christina Rossetti 'Goblin Market' (1862); George Eliot 'Brother Jacob'; Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass and Whaht Alice Found There (1871); Sarah Grand The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure a Woman of Genius (1897); Chapter 6: You are what you eat?: Food and the politics of identity (1899-2003); Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1899) and 'Falk: A Reminiscence' (1903); James Joyce Ulysses (1922); Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931); Angela Carter The Magic Toyshop (1967) and Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman (1969); Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children (1981); Andrea Levy Fruit of the Lemon (1999) Zadie Smith White Teeth (2000) and Monica Ali Brick Lane (2003); Conclusion
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