By Charlotte Boyce, Joan Fitzpatrick
When novels, performs and poems confer with nutrition, they can be doing even more than we'd imagine. contemporary severe considering means that depictions of nutrition in literary works will help to give an explanation for the complicated dating among the physique, subjectivity and social buildings. A historical past of nutrients in Literature presents a transparent and entire review of vital episodes of nutrients and its intake in significant canonical literary works from the medieval interval to the twenty-first century. This quantity contextualises those works as regards to pertinent historic and cultural fabrics resembling cookery books, diaries and publications to sturdy health and wellbeing, in an effort to interact with the serious debate on nutrients and literature and the way rules of nutrients have built over the centuries.
Organised chronologically and studying convinced key writers from each interval, together with Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens, this book's enlightening severe research makes it suitable for someone attracted to the examine of nutrition and literature.
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