{"product_id":"9783319634708","title":"Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy: Production and Consumption","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFood in the Novels of Thomas Hardy: Production and Consumption\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSalmons, Kim\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis book examines the role of food in the life and works of Thomas Hardy, analysing the social, political and historical context of references to meals, eating and food production during the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how Hardy’s personal relationship to the ‘rustic’ food of his childhood provides the impetus for his fiction, and provides a historical breakdown of the key factors which influenced food regulation and production from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the fin de siècle. This study explores how a sub-textual narrative of food references in \u003ci\u003eThe Trumpet-Major\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnder the Greenwood Tree\u003c\/i\u003e captures the instability of the pre-industrial era, and how food and eating act as a means of delineating and exploring ‘character’ and ‘environment’ in \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/i\u003e. As well as this, it considers rural femininity and the myth of the feminine pastoral in \u003ci\u003eTess of the d’Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e, and charts the anxieties brought about by the shift in population from a rural to a predominantly urban one and its impact on food production in \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-09-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319634708\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-63471-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 133\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521855897740,"sku":"9783319634708","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319634708.jpg?v=1776012965","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319634708","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}