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Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology
Christina Hardyment (Ed.)
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Description for Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology
Hardcover. This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Editor(s): Hardyment, Christina. Num Pages: 240 pages, 60 colour. BIC Classification: DQ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 179 x 29. Weight in Grams: 902.
This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far-ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary eating and great writing about food will amuse, surprise, and make the mouth water. The anthology begins with examples of hospitality, ranging from Chaucer's convivial Franklin ... Read more
This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far-ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary eating and great writing about food will amuse, surprise, and make the mouth water. The anthology begins with examples of hospitality, ranging from Chaucer's convivial Franklin ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The British Library Publishing Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712357807
SKU
9780712357807
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Ref
99-1
About Christina Hardyment (Ed.)
Christina Hardyment is the author of more than ten books on literature and social history, including Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands (British Library, 2012) and The World of Arthur Ransome (Frances Lincoln 2012). She is also the editor of Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology (British Library, 2014).
Reviews for Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology
"Our desire to observe others eating, from the inside, is a large part of the appeal of reading about food in literature, as I was reminded by a splendid new collection edited by Christina Hardyment, "Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology," illustrated with vivid historic images from the collection of the British Library. . . . The collection as ... Read more