Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since the First World War. Allison Carruth's study centers on what she terms the literature of food a body of work that comprises literary realism, late modernism, and magical realism along with culinary writing, food memoir, and advertising. Through analysis of American texts ranging from Willa Cather's novel O Pioneers (1913) to Novella Carpenter's nonfiction work Farm City (2009), Carruth argues that stories about how the United States...
Global Appetites explores how industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin U.S. conceptions of global power in the century since...
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...
Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through to the contempor...
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...
Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through to the contempor...
