ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|104 pages
Consuming Bodies
chapter 3|12 pages
“Jaded Appetite” and “Perverted Taste”
chapter 10|10 pages
Tintin and the Secrets of Food
part II|142 pages
History, Culture, and National Identities
chapter 11|14 pages
“101 in the Shade”
chapter 13|12 pages
“The Uncultivated Taste”
chapter 16|9 pages
Eating to Become
chapter 19|10 pages
Taste Between the Lines
chapter 21|12 pages
Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction
part III|138 pages
Meals, Feasting, and Commensality
chapter 28|10 pages
“The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table”
chapter 29|13 pages
Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed
chapter 30|9 pages
Would You Like a Cup of Tea?
chapter 31|13 pages
From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage
part IV|100 pages
Literary Food Genres