Includes bibliographical references and index Lorna Piatti-Farnell --: chapter Introduction Kevin Bourque --: part Part I Consuming Bodies: Gender, Hunger, and the Senses -- ; chapter 1 “New Motions of the Flesh”: Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel Carina Hart --: chapter 2 Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany Sarah Frühwirth --: chapter 3 “Jaded Appetite” and “Perverted Taste”: The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics Lorna Piatti-Farnell --: chapter 4 Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature Sarah Cleary --: chapter 5 Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism Kerry Myler --: chapter 6 Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s Emerald L -- King --: chapter 7 Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature Jeri Kroll --: chapter 8 Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation Rita Mookerjee --: chapter 9 The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility Paul Mountfort --: chapter 10 Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others, and Limits of Language Nicole Anae --: part Part II History, Culture, and National Identities -- ; chapter 11 “101 in the Shade”: Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830–1910 Charmaine O’Brien --: chapter 12 The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Australian Colonial Literature Blake Singley --: chapter 13 “The Uncultivated Taste”: Explorers’ Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth-Century Australia Tracy Berno --: chapter 14 Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs, and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand Jennifer Brown --: chapter 15 Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives Harry Kashdan --: chapter 16 Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity, and Migration Jenni Ramone --: chapter 17 Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature Sarah Lawson Welsh --: chapter 18 Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean Yan Liang --: chapter 19 Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels Donna Lee Brien --: chapter 20 Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir Paromita Deb --: chapter 21 Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis Chienwei Pan --: chapter 22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000–2016 Gail Pittaway --: part Part III Meals, Feasting, and Commensality -- ; chapter 23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire Corey R -- Walden --: chapter 24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology Burçin Erol --: chapter 25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales J.S -- Mackley --: chapter 26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century: Gawain and the Green Knight Frederika Bain --: chapter 27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory Ann Beebe --: chapter 28 “The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table”: The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels Cameron Dodworth --: chapter 29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature Shelley Ingram --: chapter 30 Would You Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson Barbara Wyllie --: chapter 31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire --: chapter 32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry, and Songs from the Irish Tradition Maria Christou --: chapter 33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction Cynthia Shafer-Elliott --: part Part IV Literary Food Genres -- ; chapter 34 The Bible and Food Early Modern England Shawna Guenther --: chapter 35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England Kimo Reder --: chapter 36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects Elizabeth Blake --: chapter 37 Dinner Theatre/Dinner Theatricality Max Frazier --: chapter 38 M.F.K -- Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs Angelica Michelis --: chapter 39 Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity Amanda Eaton McMenamin --: chapter 40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text Anne-Marie Evans --: chapter 41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel Mihaela Precup --: chapter 42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives Carmel Cedro: chapter 43 Reading the Food Blog as a “Culinary Autobiography”: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories |
