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The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Michael Parrish Lee
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Description for The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 462.
This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food plot. Charting the shifting relationship between these plots, from Jane Austen’s polite meals to Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty vampires, this book sheds ... Read more
This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food plot. Charting the shifting relationship between these plots, from Jane Austen’s polite meals to Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty vampires, this book sheds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137499370
SKU
V9781137499370
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About Michael Parrish Lee
Michael Parrish Lee’s essays have appeared in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Studies in the Novel, and his fiction has appeared in Conjunctions.
Reviews for The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
“Lee’s contributions to novel theory and to studies of appetite in the nineteenth century are ingenious and frequently compelling. He proffers insightful, incisive readings of a range of novels … inviting us to ponder the ways in which details of appetite and consumption, often hidden in plain sight, function to bring entirely new interpretive possibilities into view.” (Parama Roy, Victorian ... Read more