The discourses of food in nineteenth-century British fiction
By: Annette Cozzi
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780230104334
Description: "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."--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Belly of a Nation * PART 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.