Food and the Literary Imagination
- Author / Editor
- Archer, Jayne Elisabeth, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas.
Food and the Literary Imagination
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Physical Description
- vii, 222 pp.
- Description
- Examines production and reception of food in canonical literary works, including writings by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, and George Eliot. Chapter 3, "Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food," focuses on how issues of "food security and anxieties of sustenance" shape the actions and personalities of Chaucer's pilgrims. Also mentions RvT, NPT, and GP.
- Contributor
- Turley, Richard Marggraf.
- Thomas, Howard.
- Alternative Title
- "Chaucer's Pilgrims and a Medieval Game of Food."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Reeve and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale