Format:
XVI, 222 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781349487967
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9781137406361
Content:
"People, international agencies and governments are increasingly concerned about the nature of our food, where it comes from, and the conditions in which it is produced. By close reading of a wide sweep of historical literature, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats and George Eliot, Food and the Literary Imagination shows that such anxieties are nothing new, and that we are not confronting them alone. Too often, we engage with our rural, worked environments through the lens of apparently sentimental and incidental literary representations. The book recovers lost understandings of the materiality of life and sustenance for the authors and their first readers"--
Content:
"People, international agencies and governments are increasingly concerned about the nature of our food, where it comes from, and the conditions in which it is produced. By close reading of a wide sweep of historical literature, including works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats and George Eliot, Food and the Literary Imagination shows that such anxieties are nothing new, and that we are not confronting them alone. Too often, we engage with our rural, worked environments through the lens of apparently sentimental and incidental literary representations. The book recovers lost understandings of the materiality of life and sustenance for the authors and their first readers"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Machine generated contents note:List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on the AuthorsList of abbreviationsNotes on Literary Texts and Note on UsagePrologue. Food Security and the Literary Imagination1. Food Matters2. The Field in Time3. Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food4. Remembering the Land in Shakespeare's Plays5. Keats's Ode 'To Autumn': Touching the Stubble Plains6. The Mill in Time: George Eliot and the New AgronomyEpilogue. The Literary Imagination and the Future of FoodNotes and ReferencesSelect BibliographyIndex.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137406378
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Archer, Jayne Elisabeth, 1972 - Food and the literary imagination Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 ISBN 9781137406378
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Lebensmittel
