1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food 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.
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL AND DONNA LEE BRIEN
SECTION I. CONSUMING BODIES: GENDER, HUNGER, AND THE SENSES
1 "New Motions of the Flesh": Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel
KEVIN BOURQUE
2 Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany
CARINA HART
3 "Jaded Appetite" and "Perverted Taste": The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics
SARAH FRÜHWIRTH
4 Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature
LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL
5 Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism
SARAH CLEARY
6 Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s
KERRY MYLER
7 Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature
EMERALD L. KING
8 Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation
JERI KROLL AND JEN WEBB
9 The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility
RITA MOOKERJEE
10 Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others and Limits of Language
PAUL MOUNTFORT
SECTION II. HISTORY, CULTURE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
11 "101 in the Shade": Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830s–1910
NICOLA ANAE
12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Colonial Australian Literature
CHARMAINE O’BRIEN
13 ‘The Uncultivated Taste’: Explorer’s Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth Century Australia
BLAKE SINGLEY
14 Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
TRACY BERNO, LINDSAY NEILL, DALE THOMPSON, CHRISTINE HALL AND ALISON GRAVILLE
15 Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives
JENNIFER BROWN
16 Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity and Migration
HARRY KASHDAN
17 Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature
JENNI RAMONE
18 Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean
SARAH LAWSON WELSH
19 Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels
YAN LIANG
20 Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir
DONNA LEE BRIEN
21 Food Metaphors in Parsi fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis
PAROMITA DEB
22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000-2016
CHIENWEI PAN
SECTION III. MEALS, FEASTING, AND COMMENSALITY
23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the early Roman Empire
GAIL PITTAWAY
24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology
COREY R.WALDEN
25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
BURÇIN EROL
26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century Gawain and the Green Knight
J.S. MACKLEY
27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory
FREDERIKA BAIN
28 "The Elegances of the Breakfast-Table": The Encoded Space of the Breakfast-Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels
ANN BEEBE
29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature
CAMERON DODWORTH
30 Would you Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson
SHELLEY INGRAM AND WILLOW G. MULLINS
31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature
BARBARA WYLLIE
32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry and Songs from the Irish Tradition
MÁIRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE
33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction
MARIA CHRISTOU
SECTION IV. LITERARY FOOD GENRES
34 The Bible and Food
CYNTHIA SHAFER-ELLIOTT
35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England
SHAWNA GUENTHER
36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects
KIMO REDER
37 Dinner Theater / Dinner Theatricality
LIZ BLAKE
38 M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs
MAX FRAZIER
39 Man-eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity
ANGELICA MICHELIS
40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text
AMANDA EATON MCMENAMIN
41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel
ANNE-MARIE EVANS
42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives
MIHAELA PRECUP
43 Reading the Food Blog as a ‘Culinary Autobiography’: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-centred Stories
CARMEL CEDRO
Index
Biography
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, PhD, is Director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Donna Lee Brien, PhD, is Professor of Creative Industries at Central Queensland University, Australia.