The Food Plot In The Nineteenth-century British Novel (palgrave Studies In Nineteenth-century Writing And Culture)
by Michael Parrish Lee /
2016 / English / PDF
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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 best-know works of
nineteenth-century literature and pushes forward understandings of
narrative, literary character, biopolitics, and the novel as a
form.
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 best-know works of
nineteenth-century literature and pushes forward understandings of
narrative, literary character, biopolitics, and the novel as a
form.
From Austen to Zombies, Michael Parrish Lee explores how the
food plot conflicts with the marriage plot in
nineteenth-century literature and beyond, and how appetite
keeps rising up against taste and intellect. Lee’s book will be
of interest to Victorianists, genre theorists, Food Studies,
and theorists of bare life and biopolitics. - Regenia Gagnier,
Professor of English, University of Exeter
From Austen to Zombies, Michael Parrish Lee explores how the
food plot conflicts with the marriage plot in
nineteenth-century literature and beyond, and how appetite
keeps rising up against taste and intellect. Lee’s book will be
of interest to Victorianists, genre theorists, Food Studies,
and theorists of bare life and biopolitics. - Regenia Gagnier,
Professor of English, University of ExeterIn
InThe Food Plot
The Food Plot Michael Lee engages recent and
classic scholarship and brings fresh and provocative readings to
well worked literary critical ground. Drawing upon narrative
theory, character study, theories of sexuality, and political
economy, Professor Lee develops a refreshing and satisfyingly
deep new reading of canonical novels as he develops the concept
of the food plot.
Michael Lee engages recent and
classic scholarship and brings fresh and provocative readings to
well worked literary critical ground. Drawing upon narrative
theory, character study, theories of sexuality, and political
economy, Professor Lee develops a refreshing and satisfyingly
deep new reading of canonical novels as he develops the concept
of the food plot.The Food Plot
The Food Plot should be of
interest to specialists in the novel and food studies, as well as
students and general readers. - Professor April Bullock,
California State University, Fullerton, USA
should be of
interest to specialists in the novel and food studies, as well as
students and general readers. - Professor April Bullock,
California State University, Fullerton, USA