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020			_a9780857854568 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a82-4 _bHUM
100			_aHumble, Nicola
245			_aThe Literature of Food _b: An Introduction from 1830 to Present
260			_bBloomsburry Publishing _c2020
300			_aviii,288p.
504			_aIncludes Bibliography (270-283) and Index
520			_aWhy are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think
650			_aKitchen Politics
650			_aLiterary and Culinary Experiments
650			_aFantasies of Food
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
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