The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (Paperback, 1)

AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroductionLORNA PIATTI-FARNELL AND DONNA LEE BRIENSECTION I. CONSUMING BODIES: GENDER, HUNGER, AND THE SENSES1 "New Motions of the Flesh": Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the NovelKEVIN BOURQUE2 Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and GermanyCARINA HART3 "Jaded Appetite" and "Perverted Taste": The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist CriticsSARAH FRUHWIRTH4 Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s LiteratureLORNA PIATTI-FARNELL5 Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and CannibalismSARAH CLEARY6 Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960sKERRY MYLER7 Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese LiteratureEMERALD L. KING8 Disordered Eating: Food and Identity FormationJERI KROLL AND JEN WEBB9 The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female EdibilityRITA MOOKERJEE10 Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others and Limits of LanguagePAUL MOUNTFORTSECTION II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES11 "101 in the Shade": Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830s?1910NICOLA ANAE12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Colonial Australian LiteratureCHARMAINE O’BRIEN13 ‘The Uncultivated Taste’: Explorer’s Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth Century AustraliaBLAKE SINGLEY14 Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New ZealandTRACY BERNO, LINDSAY NEILL, DALE THOMPSON, CHRISTINE HALL AND ALISON GRAVILLE15 Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave NarrativesJENNIFER BROWN 16 Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity and MigrationHARRY KASHDAN17 Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian LiteratureJENNI RAMONE18 Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone CaribbeanSARAH LAWSON WELSH19 Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese NovelsYAN LIANG20 Food in the Singaporean Graphic MemoirDONNA LEE BRIEN21 Food Metaphors in Parsi fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential CrisisPAROMITA DEB22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000-2016CHIENWEI PANSECTION III. MEALS, FEASTING, AND COMMENSALITY23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the early Roman EmpireGAIL PITTAWAY24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in MythologyCOREY R.WALDEN25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury TalesBURCIN EROL26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century Gawain and the Green KnightJ.S. MACKLEY27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English CarnivoryFREDERIKA BAIN28 "The Elegances of the Breakfast-Table": The Encoded Space of the Breakfast-Room in Nineteenth-Century American NovelsANN BEEBE29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian LiteratureCAMERON DODWORTH30 Would you Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley JacksonSHELLEY INGRAM AND WILLOW G. MULLINS31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian LiteratureBARBARA WYLLIE32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry and Songs from the Irish TraditionMAIRTIN MAC CON IOMAIRE33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary FictionMARIA CHRISTOUSECTION IV. LITERARY FOOD GENRES 34 The Bible and FoodCYNTHIA SHAFER-ELLIOTT35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern EnglandSHAWNA GUENTHER36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary DialectsKIMO REDER37 Dinner Theater / Dinner TheatricalityLIZ BLAKE 38 M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary MemoirsMAX FRAZIER39 Man-eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of MasculinityANGELICA MICHELIS40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial TextAMANDA EATON MCMENAMIN41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic NovelANNE-MARIE EVANS42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic NarrativesMIHAELA PRECUP43 Reading the Food Blog as a ‘Culinary Autobiography’: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-centred StoriesCARMEL CEDROIndex