Beschreibung:
Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through the contemporary periods.
List of Figures Series Editor Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Genealogies and genres of food studies 2. Food routes: Seasonality, abundance, and the mythic garden 3. Virtuous eating: Utopian farms and dietary treatises 4. Recipes as vernacular literature: A case study in chocolate 5. Gustatory narrative: Meals, memory, and modernist fiction 6. Authoring gastronomy: Professional eaters and culinary print culture Epilogue Index