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Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad

Eating as Narrative

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Kim Salmons

    1. St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom

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  • Represents the only book to focus solely on food in the novels of Joseph Conrad

  • Contributes to the emergent and increasingly important critical field of Food Studies

  • Provides a new perspective on the cultural and historical context of Conrad's novels

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 1-17

  3. Historical Context 1890 to 1920

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 19-45

  4. Food as Cultural Narrative in Almayer’s Folly

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 47-66

  5. Cannibalism and ‘Falk: A Reminiscence’

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 67-81

  6. Anarchy, Vegetarianism and The Secret Agent

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 83-96

  7. Bread and Liberty in Under Western Eyes

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 97-116

  8. Conclusion

    • Kim Salmons
    Pages 117-120

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 121-127
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About this book

This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It offers a new perspective on the works of Joseph Conrad and provides an accessible medium through which readers can engage with the complex theories and philosophical dilemmas that Conrad presents in his fiction. This is the only major study of food in Conrad’s works; it is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to food in that it engages with sociological, political, historical, personal and literary perspectives, thus providing a multi-dimensional approach to cultural, revolutionary, periodical and fictional representations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This in turn, allows an interrogation of modern anxieties, embedded in cultural norms and values that can be interpreted through the way that food is prepared and eaten. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • St Mary’s University, Twickenham, United Kingdom

    Kim Salmons

About the author

Kim Salmons is Lecturer at St Mary’s University, UK. Other publications include Food in the Novels of Thomas Hardy: Production and Consumption. Kim Salmons has presented widely on the subject of food in modern literature and before entering academia, she was an assistant commissioning editor on the Arts desk of The Observer newspaper, where she wrote under the name of Kim Bunce. 

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