Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food written by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.