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Cookie akzeptierenMichael Parrish Lee
The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- 2017
- Gebunden
- 256 Seiten
- ISBN 9781137499370
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 new light on some of the
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