The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

ISBN-13: 9781032241869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 516 str.

Lorna Piatti-Farnell; Donna Lee Brien

Opis

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  List of Contributors;  Introduction, LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL AND DONNA LEE BRIEN;  PART I. CONSUMING BODIES: GENDER, HUNGER, AND THE SENSES;  1 "New Motions of the Flesh": Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel, KEVIN BOURQUE;  2 Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany, CARINA HART;  3 "Jaded Appetite" and "Perverted Taste": The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics, SARAH FRÜHWIRTH;  4 Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature, LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL;  5 Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism, SARAH CLEARY;  6 Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s, KERRY MYLER;  7 Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature, EMERALD L. KING;  8 Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation, JERI KROLL AND JEN WEBB;  9 The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility, RITA MOOKERJEE;  10 Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others and Limits of Language, PAUL MOUNTFORT;  PART II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES;  11 "101 in the Shade": Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830s–1910, NICOLA ANAE;  12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Colonial Australian Literature, CHARMAINE O’BRIEN;  13 "The Uncultivated Taste": Explorer’s Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth Century Australia, BLAKE SINGLEY;  14 Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs, and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, TRACY BERNO, LINDSAY NEILL, DALE THOMPSON, CHRISTINE HALL, AND ALISON GRAVILLE;  15 Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives, JENNIFER BROWN;  16 Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity, and Migration, HARRY KASHDAN;  17 Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature, JENNI RAMONE;  18 Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean, SARAH LAWSON WELSH;  19 Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels, YAN LIANG;  20 Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir, DONNA LEE BRIEN;  21 Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis, PAROMITA DEB;  22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000–2016, CHIENWEI PAN;  PART III. MEALS, FEASTING, AND COMMENSALITY;  23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire, GAIL PITTAWAY;  24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology, COREY R.WALDEN;  25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, BURÇIN EROL;  26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century: Gawain and the Green Knight, J.S. MACKLEY;  27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory, FREDERIKA BAIN;  28 "The Elegances of the Breakfast-Table": The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels, ANN BEEBE;  29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature, CAMERON DODWORTH;  30 Would You Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson, SHELLEY INGRAM AND WILLOW G. MULLINS;  31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature, BARBARA WYLLIE;  32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry and Songs from the Irish Tradition, MÁIRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE;  33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction, MARIA CHRISTOU;  PART IV. LITERARY FOOD GENRES;  34 The Bible and Food, CYNTHIA SHAFER-ELLIOTT;  35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England, SHAWNA GUENTHER;  36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects, KIMO REDER;  37 Dinner Theater/Dinner Theatricality, LIZ BLAKE;  38 M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs, MAX FRAZIER;  39 Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity, ANGELICA MICHELIS;  40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text, AMANDA EATON MCMENAMIN;  41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel, ANNE-MARIE EVANS;  42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives, MIHAELA PRECUP;  43 Reading the Food Blog as a "Culinary Autobiography": Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories, CARMEL CEDRO;  Index

O autorze

Lorna Piatti-Farnell, PhD, is Director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

Donna Lee Brien, PhD, is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, Australia.