Food and the Literary Imagination

Author / Editor
Archer, Jayne Elisabeth, Richard Marggraf Turley, and Howard Thomas.

Title
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