Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

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.

• Acknowledgements, List of Contributors, Introduction, Part I: Consuming Bodies: Gender, Hunger, and the Senses, 1. “New Motions of the Flesh”: Chocolate, Pleasure, and the Rise of the Novel, 2. Wine Poems: The Drinking Song and Dithyrambic Ode in Romantic England and Germany, 3. “Jaded Appetite” and “Perverted Taste”: The Food Rhetoric of Nineteenth-Century Anti-Sensationalist Critics, 4. Ravenous Fantasies and Revolting Dinners: Food and Horror in Children’s Literature, 5. Dinner for Two: Sexual Desire, Reciprocity, and Cannibalism, 6. Food, Duty, and Desire in the Women’s Novel in the 1960s, 7. Women Who Don’t Eat in Modern Japanese Literature, 8. Disordered Eating: Food and Identity Formation, 9. The Taste of Desire, The Trauma of Hunger: Black Female Edibility, 10. Tintin and the Secrets of Food: The Body Fantastic, Cultural Others, and Limits of Language, Part II: History, Culture, and National Identities, 11. “101 in the Shade”: Christmas Pudding in Australian Popular and Literary Verse 1830–1910, 12. The Devil at Work?: The Cook in Australian Colonial Literature, 13. “The Uncultivated Taste”: Explorers’ Accounts of Aboriginal Foodways in Nineteenth-Century Australia, 14. Kiwi Cuisine: Cookbooks, Chefs, and Cultural Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, 15. Remembrance of Freedoms Past: Foodways in Slave Narratives, 16. Eating to Become: Italian Counter-Narratives of Assimilation, Identity, and Migration, 17. Transforming Hunger into Power: Food and Resistance in Nigerian Literature, 18. Caribbean Cravings: Literature and Food in the Anglophone Caribbean, 19. Taste Between the Lines: The Presentation of Food in Three Late Imperial Chinese Novels, 20. Food in the Singaporean Graphic Memoir, 21. Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis, 22. Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000–2016, Part III: Meals, Feasting, and Commensality, 23. Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire, 24. Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology, 25. Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 26. Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century: Gawain and the Green Knight, 27. Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory, 28. “The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table”: The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels, 29. Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature, 30. Would You Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson, 31. From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature, 32. The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry, and Songs from the Irish Tradition, 33. Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction, Part IV: Literary Food Genres, 34. The Bible and Food, 35. Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England, 36. Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau’s Dietary Dialects, 37. Dinner Theatre/Dinner Theatricality, 38. M.F.K. Fisher’s Culinary Memoirs, 39. Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity, 40. Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text, 41. Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel, 42. Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives, 43. Reading the Food Blog as a “Culinary Autobiography”: Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories, Index