The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World

A bold new argument about how eating rituals across the eighteenth-century globe reveal an untold story about the rise of the novel

In The Barbarous Feast, Sophie Gee argues that novels and eating rituals were interconnected, but conflicting, systems used to depict selfhood and represent personal inwardness in colonial Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Gee tells a vibrant story of how people living at the margins of colonial power drew upon eating and writing to manage their own interior ...