Literature and Food Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415641203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 186 str.

Allison Carruth;Amy L. Tigner

Opis

Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through to the contemporary periods. The book explores how literature has contributed to discourses around pastoralism, agribusiness, taste, foodways, food security and food justice and how these feed back into literature. Tracing their literary enquiries through colonialism, industrialization and globalization, the authors explore primary materials as diverse as John Milton's Paradise Lost, Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation, Hannah Wooley's seventeenth-century "receipt books" and Vandana Shiba's recent polemics on genetically modified food. Literature and Food Studies foregrounds questions of globalism, place, cross-cultural exchange, identity, and empire as they shape and are shaped by food discourses Combining a cultural studies approach to food and agriculture with textual analysis and historical contextualisation, Literature and Food Studies is a clear and engaging introduction to this rapidly expanding topic.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Series Editor Preface  Acknowledgments  1. Introduction: Genealogies and genres of food studies 2. Food routes: Seasonality, abundance, and the mythic garden  3. Virtuous eating: Utopian farms and dietary treatises  4. Recipes as vernacular literature: A case study in chocolate  5. Gustatory narrative: Meals, memory, and modernist fiction  6. Authoring gastronomy: Professional eaters and culinary print culture  Epilogue  Index

O autorze

Amy L. Tigner is Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies in the English Department at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA.

Allison Carruth is Associate Professor in the English Department, Institute for Society and Genetics, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where she is the director of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS).