1st Edition
A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present
Chapter 1: Pilgrims and partridges (1350–1550); William Langland, Piers Plowman (late 1300s); Anon., Gawain and the Green Knight (late 1300s); Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (late 1300s); Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (early 1400s); Chapter 2: Bodily health and spiritual wealth (1550–1640); Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596); Willliam Shakespeare, various works; Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Woman Hater (1607); Ben Jonson, Valpone (1605), The Alchemist (1616) and Bartholomew Fair (1631); Chapter 3: Adventures in England and beyond its shores (1650–1750); John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667); John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671); Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719); Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1729); Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749); Chapter 4: Luxuxy, gluttony, domestic economy and ethical eating (1750–1830); Anon., The Tryal of the Lady Allurea Luxury (1757); Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771); Robert Ferguson, 'The Farmer's Ingle' and 'To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on Their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel Johnson' (1773); Robert Burns, 'Address to a Haggis' and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' (1786); Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792); Hannah More, The Way to Plenty (1795) and The Cottage Cook (1797); Mary Birkett, A Poem on the African Slave Trade (1792); Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815); Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem with Notes and A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813); Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818); George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814) and Don Juan (c. 1819–1824); John Keats, Endymion (1818), The Fall of Hyperion (written c. 1819–1821), The Eve of St. Agnes and 'La Belle Dame sans Merci' (1820); Chapter 5: 'Come buy, come buy . . . I have no copper in my purse': hunger, indulgence desire and adulteration (1830–1898); Charles Dickens, various works; William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1847–1848); Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848); Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) and Shirley (1849); Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847); Christina Rossetti, 'Goblin Market' (1862); George Eliot, 'Brother Jacob'; Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass, and Whaht Alice Found There (1871); Sarah Grand, The Beth Book, Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius (1897); Chapter 6: You are what you eat?: Food and the politics of identity (1899–2003); Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) and 'Falk: A Reminiscence' (1903); James Joyce, Ulysses (1922); Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931); Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop (1967) and Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969); Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981); Andrea Levy, Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) and Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003); Conclusion
Biography
Charlotte Boyce is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Joan Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK.
