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The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Michael Parrish Lee (auth.) is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food
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- Author
- Michael Parrish Lee (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137499387
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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