The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction [electronic resource] /
Cozzi, A.author.
The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts.  It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliogiraphical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Belly of a Nation -- pt I. Eating English ; Corn Kings : Disraeli, Hardy, and the Reconciliation of Nations ; Men and Menus : Dickens and the Rise of the "Ordinary" English Gentleman ; "I have no country" Domesticating the Generic National Woman -- PART II. Alien Appetites ; "Miss Sharp adores pork" : Ingesting India from The Missionary to The Moonstone ; Blood and Rum : Power and the Racialization of the Victorian Monster ; Conclusion: The Bill of Fare-Thee-Well.
The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts.  It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
European literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.