ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|104 pages
Consuming Bodies
chapter 3|12 pages
“Jaded Appetite” and “Perverted Taste”
The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics
chapter 10|10 pages
Tintin and the Secrets of Food
The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others, and Limits of Language
part II|142 pages
History, Culture, and National Identities
chapter 11|14 pages
“101 in the Shade”
Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse,
1830–1900
chapter 13|12 pages
“The Uncultivated Taste”
Explorers’ Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth-Century Australia
chapter 16|9 pages
Eating to Become
Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity, and Migration
chapter 19|10 pages
Taste Between the Lines
The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels
chapter 21|12 pages
Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction
Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis
part III|138 pages
Meals, Feasting, and Commensality
chapter 28|10 pages
“The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table”
The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels
chapter 29|13 pages
Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed
The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature
chapter 30|9 pages
Would You Like a Cup of Tea?
Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson
chapter 31|13 pages
From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage
The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature
part IV|100 pages
Literary Food Genres
chapter 43|10 pages
Reading the Food Blog as a “Culinary Autobiography”
Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories
