Food and the literary imagination
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Food and the literary imagination
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-212) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Authors List of abbreviations Notes on Literary Texts and Note on Usage Prologue. Food Security and the Literary Imagination 1. Food Matters 2. The Field in Time 3. Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food 4. Remembering the Land in Shakespeare's Plays 5. Keats's Ode 'To Autumn': Touching the Stubble Plains 6. The Mill in Time: George Eliot and the New Agronomy Epilogue. The Literary Imagination and the Future of Food Notes and References Select Bibliography Index
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