Food and the Literary Imagination [electronic resource] /
Archer, Jayne Elisabeth.author.
Turley, Richard Marggraf.author.
Thomas, Howard.1948-author.
Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Literary Texts and Note on Usage; Prologue: Food Security and the Literary Imagination; 1 Food Matters; Down the hatch; The hungry voice; Food security and the modern world; The three ages of food; The pastoral and the georgic; 2 The Field in Time; Time, space and life; The legacy of ice and fire; How the field made us; Harvesting the sun; The social landscape; Fields ancient and modern; 3 Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food; The silent Plowman; The game of food
The Plowman speaksThe politics of food corruption; Food unrest in The Reeve's Tale; Winners and losers; 4 Remembering the Land in Shakespeare's Plays; The last load of corn; The cushion and the sack; The high-grown field; Idle weeds; A sheafe of wheate; 5 Keats's Ode 'To Autumn': Touching the Stubble-Plains; What we think of when we think of Keats; The materia medica of the sweetshop; The pedestrian picturesque; Walking with Keats; At the eastern extremity: St Giles's Hill and 'To Autumn'; Winchester bushels: mobs and measures; Bread and butter poetry; Twinèd flowers: 'To Autumn' and Lamia
Keeping a very strict eyeThe mill and the hay wain; Keats's car park; 6 The Mill in Time: George Eliot and the New Agronomy; Tilting at watermills; An arable poetics; Agrarian alchymy; Water work; Rivers of corn; Epilogue: The Literary Imagination and the Future of Food; Notes and References; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index; Color Plate
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security.
Poetry.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
British literature.
Ethnology.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.