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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN num: 9781847250483
ISBN number: 1847250483
Label: Hambledon & London
Manufacturer: Hambledon & London
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 184
Printing Date: August 30, 2007
Publishing house: Hambledon & London
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Studio: Hambledon & London
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While Jane Austen does not luxuriate in cataloguing meals in the way of Victorian novelists, food in fact plays a vital part in her novels. Her plots, being domestic, are deeply imbued with the rituals of giving and sharing meals. The attitudes of her characters to eating, to housekeeping and to hospitality are important indicators of their moral worth. This culminates in the artistic triumph of Emma, in which repeated references to food not only contribute to the solidity of her imagined world, but provide an extended metaphor for the interdependence of a community. In this original, lively and well-researched book, Maggie Lane not only offers a fresh perspective on the novels, but illuminates a fascinating period of food history, as England stood on the brink of urbanisation, middle-class luxury, and a widespread change in the role of women. Ranging over topics from greed to gender to mealtimes and manners, and drawing on the novels, letters and Austen family papers, she also discusses Jane Austen's own ambivalent attitude to the provision and enjoyment of food.
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About half of this book can be read by a non JA lover and still find it interesting. The author does a very nice job of giving both an understandable explaination of food and customs of the period for even the non fans out there. But the latter chapters, which focus on themes of food and its relationship to the novels and the characters will leave the non-initiated a little harried. Having read all the novels also helps a great deal when she begins to break down character by character. The author also has some wonderful insights that literally made a light bulb go off in my head. So in the end if you are a JA fan read away, if you are not try reading half of it!
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