The Literature of Food / (Record no. 6682)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780857854568
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number 810.935
Item number HumL
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Personal name Humble, Nicola
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Title The Literature of Food /
Statement of responsibility, etc Nicola Humble
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Place of publication London :
Name of publisher Bloomsbury Academic,
Year of publication ©2020.
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Number of Pages viii, 288p.
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Summary, etc Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust.<br/><br/>Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves.<br/>Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts.<br/><br/>From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
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Topical Term Literature
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      Non-fiction Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati General Stacks 27/10/2025 Creative Books 2297.47 CB/25128 810.935 HumL (11715) 11715 Copy 01 3282.10 27/10/2025 Books