Overview
- Represents the only book to focus solely on food in the novels of Thomas Hardy
- Contributes to the emergent and increasingly important critical field of Food Studies
- Provides a new perspective on the cultural and historical context of Hardy's novels
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kim Salmons is Lecturer at St Mary’s University, UK. Her publications include Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad: Eating as Narrative (Palgrave, 2017). She has presented widely on the subject of food in modern literature and was previously Assistant Commissioning Editor on the Arts desk of the Observer newspaper.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
Book Subtitle: Production and Consumption
Authors: Kim Salmons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63471-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63470-8Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87566-8Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63471-5Published: 31 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 133
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature