How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with

Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and

From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food. In this stunning and important work,

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This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an exp