Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food</em> 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.</p> Acknowledgements, List of Contributors, Introduction, Part I: Consuming Bodies: Gender, Hunger, and the Senses, 1. “New Motions of the Flesh”: Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel, 2. Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany, 3. “Jaded Appetite” and “Perverted Taste”: The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics, 4. Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature, 5. Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism, 6. Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s, 7. Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature, 8. Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation, 9. The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility, 10. Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others, and Limits of Language, Part II: History, Culture, and National Identities, 11. “101 in the Shade”: Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830–1910, 12. The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Australian Colonial Literature, 13. “The Uncultivated Taste”: Explorers’ Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth-Century Australia, 14. Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs, and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, 15. Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives, 16. Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity, and Migration, 17. Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature, 18. Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean, 19. Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels, 20. Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir, 21. Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis, 22. Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000–2016, Part III: Meals, Feasting, and Commensality, 23. Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire, 24. Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology, 25. Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 26. Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century: Gawain and the Green Knight, 27. Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory, 28. “The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table”: The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels, 29. Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature, 30. Would You Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson, 31. From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature, 32. The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry, and Songs from the Irish Tradition, 33. Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction, Part IV: Literary Food Genres, 34. The Bible and Food, 35. Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England, 36. Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects, 37. Dinner Theatre/Dinner Theatricality, 38. M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs, 39. Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity, 40. Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text, 41. Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel, 42. Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives, 43. Reading the Food Blog as a “Culinary Autobiography”: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories, Index