The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9780230117525
ISBN-13 : 023011752X
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Book Synopsis The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by : A. Cozzi

Download or read book The Discourses of Food in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction written by A. Cozzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from canonical Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches, royal proclamations, and Amendment Acts. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, regionalism, urbanization, colonialism, and imperialism in order to discover how national identity and Otherness are constructed and internalized.


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