A History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

by Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041584052X
• ISBN13: 9780415840521
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"