This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

Offers an overview of American environmental literature across genres and time periods, introducing readers to a range of ecocritical methodologies.

This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.

This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxica

This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.