Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945

This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into three parts, essays focus on the food scandals of the early Victorian era, the decadence and greed of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and the effects of austerity caused by two world wars.

Autorentext

Mary Addyman recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Laura Wood recently completed her PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Christopher Yiannitsaros recently completed his PhD at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Inhalt

Introduction

Mary Addyman, Laura Wood, and Christopher Yiannitsaros

Part I Devouring Didacticism: Feeding Young Minds

Chapter 1 Sweet Poison: Food Adulteration and Fiction

Laura Wood

Chapter 2 Onions and Honey, Roast Spiders and Chutney: Unusual Appetites and Disorderly Consumption in Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse

Charlotte Boyce

Part II An Appetite for Change: Hunger and Nineteenth-Century Society

Chapter 3 The Rhetoric of Taste: Reform, Hunger and Consumption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

Lesa Scholl

Chapter 4 Feeding the Vampire: The Ravenous Hunger of the Fin de Siècle

Angelica Michelis

Part III The Power of the Printed Word: Advertising and Markets

Chapter 5 'A change comes over the spirit of your vision': Champagne in Britain

Graham Harding

Chapter 6 The Language of Advertising: Fashioning Health Consumers at the Fin de Siècle

Lesley Steinitz

Part IV Into the Twentieth Century: Legacies and Memories

Chapter 7 'Yes, We had no Bananas': Sharing Memories of the Second World War

Corinna Peniston-Bird

Chapter 8 Meeting Mrs Beeton: The Personal is Political in the Recipe Book

Margaret Beetham

Conclusion

'All else is vain, but eating is real': Gustatory Bodies

Mary Addyman