Food and the Literary Imagination

by Howard Thomas, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Richard Marggraf Turley, et al.

Book Overview

People, international agencies and governments are increasingly concerned about the nature of our food, where it comes from, and the conditions in which it is produced. Through close reading of a wide sweep of historical literature, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats and George Eliot, Food and the Literary Imagination shows that such anxieties are nothing new, and that we are not confronting them alone. Too often, we engage with our rural,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137406364
• ISBN13: 9781137406361
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"