Overview
- One of the first works to engage with the complex relationship between food and the nineteenth-century British novel
- This study challenges the centrality of the marriage plot as a narrative device
- The author's innovative, interdisciplinary approach sheds new light on iconic nineteenth century novelists from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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About this book
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
In 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 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, USAReviews
“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)
“In 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 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)>>
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Parrish Lee’s essays have appeared in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Studies in the Novel, and his fiction has appeared in Conjunctions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Authors: Michael Parrish Lee
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49938-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49937-0Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69849-3Published: 16 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49938-7Published: 21 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 246
Topics: British and Irish Literature