{"product_id":"9780857854568","title":"The Literature of Food : An Introduction from 1830 to Present","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Literature of Food\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nicola Humble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Food\u003c\/i\u003e explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined.  Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves.  \u003cbr\u003eCarefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, \u003ci\u003eThe Literature of Food\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A convivial, thoughtful, and humane contribution to the varieties of literary experience that food has generated.” —\u003ci\u003eWorld of Fine Wine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This introduction to “the literature of food” will appeal to scholars and students alike. With her characteristic wit and lucidity, Humble tackles themes like hunger and disgust, genres like children's literature and food memoirs, and dynamics like class tensions and gender roles. An ample repast for the eager reader.” —\u003ci\u003eAssociate Professor at University of South Carolina, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a thrilling, compendious study of English literature and its handling of the vibrant stuff of food. Its tone is consistent from beginning to end: friendly, authoritative, interested and interesting. Nicola Humble is a superb guide to a literary tradition that goes far beyond metaphor in treating food as the stuff of nightmares, hatred, violence and, above all, love.” —\u003ci\u003eAndrew Warnes, University of Leeds, UK and author of How Shopping Carts Explain Global Consumerism (2018)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780857854568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40706832007374,"sku":"9780857854568","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_699fed1a-141a-4022-9bf0-7b4f4a148a86.jpg?v=1640580173","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780857854568","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}