Food and the Literary Imagination
By: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Lecturer, Richard Marggraf Turley, Howard Thomas
Contributors: Turley, Richard Marggraf, 1970- author; Thomas, Howard, 1948- author
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781137406361
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Food in literature; Food security in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Description: "People, international agencies and governments are increasingly concerned about the nature of our food, where it comes from, and the conditions in which it is produced. By close reading of a wide sweep of historical literature, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats and George Eliot, Food and the Literary Imagination shows that such anxieties are nothing new, and that we are not confronting them alone. Too often, we engage with our rural, worked environments through the lens of apparently sentimental and incidental literary representations. The book recovers lost understandings of the materiality of life and sustenance for the authors and their first readers"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on the AuthorsList of abbreviationsNotes on Literary Texts and Note on UsagePrologue. Food Security and the Literary Imagination1. Food Matters2. The Field in Time3. Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food4. Remembering the Land in Shakespeare's Plays5. Keats's Ode 'To Autumn': Touching the Stubble Plains6. The Mill in Time: George Eliot and the New AgronomyEpilogue. The Literary Imagination and the Future of FoodNotes and ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex.