Food and Eating in the Bronte Novels

Authors

  • Fiona Lucraft Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30025

Keywords:

food and literature, social history, 18th-century, England, metaphor, narrative devices, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, novels

Abstract

This paper, an important reference for anyone working on food in English literature, was contributed to the Oxford Symposium on Food, 1998.  It is a study of the depiction and purpose of food (and drink) in the novels of Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte.

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Published

1999-08-01

Issue

PPC 62 (1999)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Lucraft, Fiona. 1999. “Food and Eating in the Bronte Novels”. Petits Propos Culinaires, August, 29-50. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30025.