Food in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Food in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • Alimentary Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory: Pierre Leroux, Etienne Cabet and Charles Fourier
  • Dickens and the Adulteration of Food
  • Mealtimes, Menus, Manners
  • Introduction to Food in Russian History and Culture
• Criticism: Food And Social Class
  • The Role of Food in Madame Bovary
  • The Dining Room Door Swings Both Ways: Food, Race, and Domestic Space in the Nineteenth-Century South
• Criticism: Food And Gender
  • Some Aspects of Emily Dickinson's Food and Liquor Poems
  • The Genesis of Hunger According to Shirley
  • Greed and Gender
  • ‘Ladies—Loaf Givers’: Food, Women, and Society in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot
• Criticism: Food And Love
  • Food and Ceremony in Great Expectations
  • Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka
• Criticism: Food And Sex
  • Food, Sex, Death, and the Feminine Principle in Keats's Poetry
  • Anorexia Nervosa versus the Fleshpots of London: Rose and Nancy in Oliver Twist
• Criticism: Eating Disorders
  • Stuffing the Verdant Goose: Culinary Esthetics in Don Juan.
  • The Power of the Powerless: A Trio of Nineteenth-Century French Disorderly Eaters
  • New England Indigestion and Its Victims
• Criticism: Vegetarians, Carnivores, And Cannibals
  • Frankenstein's Vegetarian Monster
  • An Appetite for Power: Predators, Carnivores, and Cannibals in Dostoevsky's Fiction
• Further Reading