Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy [electronic resource] : Production and Consumption / by Kim Salmons.

Erişim Adresi
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ISBN
9783319634715
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/5443
Yazar
Salmons, Kim.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIII, 133 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Undermining the Pastoral ‘Idyll’: The Trumpet-Major and Under the Greenwood Tree -- 4. The Decline and Fall of the Corn King: The Mayor of Casterbridge -- 5. Food Production and the Feminine Pastoral: Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- 6. Pig Killing and Surviving Modernity: Jude the Obscure -- Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
This book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how Hardy’s personal relationship to the ‘rustic’ food of his childhood provides the impetus for his fiction, and provides a historical breakdown of the key factors which influenced food regulation and production from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle. This study explores how a sub-textual narrative of food references in The Trumpet-Major and Under the Greenwood Tree captures the instability of the pre-industrial era, and how food and eating act as a means of delineating and exploring ‘character’ and ‘environment’ in The Mayor of Casterbridge. As well as this, it considers rural femininity and the myth of the feminine pastoral in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and charts the anxieties brought about by the shift in population from a rural to a predominantly urban one and its impact on food production in Jude the Obscure.
Konu
European literature.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern __ 19th century.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
European Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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