Consuming Fictions

Gail Turley Houston is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University.

"This book is unquestionably a singular contribution to its field. It presents a systematic close analysis of all of Dickens’s novels from the perspective of gender and hunger. What is more, it contextualizes its findings into the large framework of Victorian England, particularly the role of a capitalist, consumer society. There can be no doubt as to the importance of the field: a major author studied in relation to the dominant social problems of his day."—Lilian R. Furst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill