Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--McGill University. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Reading for the food plot -- Novel appetites: Jane Austen and the "nothing" of food -- The rise of the food plot in Victorian fiction -- Charles Dickens and the hungry marriage plot -- Food and the art of fiction in the work of George Eliot -- Narrative underbellies: food, sex, reading, and writing in the late nineteenth century -- Eating knowledge at the fin de siècle -- Afterword: The food plot and its afterlives.
Series:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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