Literature and Food Studies

Informationen zum Autor Amy L. Tigner is Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies in the English Department at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA. Allison Carruth is Associate Professor in the English Department, Institute for Society and Genetics, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where she is the director of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Klappentext Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through the contemporary periods. Zusammenfassung Literature and Food Studies provides a comparative literary history of the politics of food from the early modern through the contemporary periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Allison Carruth, Carruth Allison, Amy Tigner, Amy Carruth Tigner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2017
• EAN: 9780415641203
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64120-3
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Literature and Contemporary Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Food & society, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Cultural studies: food and society