The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food (Hardcover)

Introduction

SECTION I. CONSUMING BODIES: GENDER, HUNGER, AND THE SENSES

1 "New Motions of the Flesh": Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel

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

SECTION II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES

11 "101 in the Shade": Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830s?1910

12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Colonial Australian Literature

13 ‘The Uncultivated Taste’: Explorer’s 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

SECTION 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 Elegances 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

SECTION 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 Theater / 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