21 Food Metaphors in Parsi Fiction: Negotiating the Politics of Their Existential Crisis -- 22 Alternative Nostalgia: Taiwanese Food Narrative 2000-2016 -- Part III Meals, Feasting, and Commensality -- 23 Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire -- 24 Viands of the Divine: An Exploration of Food and Food-Based Ritual in Mythology -- 25 Food Culture and Food Imagery in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- 26 Feasts and Feasting in the Fourteenth Century: Gawain and the Green Knight -- 27 Meat Constructs: Early Modern English Carnivory -- 28 "The Elegancies of the Breakfast-Table": The Encoded Space of the Breakfast Room in Nineteenth-Century American Novels -- 29 Fears of Consumption and Being Consumed: The Gothicization of Food in Victorian Literature -- 30 Would You Like a Cup of Tea?: Food, Home, and Mid-Century Anxiety in the Later Novels of Shirley Jackson -- 31 From Imperial Pineapples to Stalinist Sausage: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Russian Literature -- 32 The Food Trope in Literature, Poetry, and Songs from the Irish Tradition -- 33 Alimentary Monstrosities: Genetically Modified Food in Contemporary Fiction -- Part IV Literary Food Genres -- 34 The Bible and Food -- 35 Food for Survival: The Medical Importance of Food in Early Modern England -- 36 Lipped Words to Chew Upon: Thoreau's Dietary Dialects -- 37 Dinner Theatre/Dinner Theatricality -- 38 M.F.K. Fisher's Culinary Memoirs -- 39 Man-Eaters: Confessional Food Writing as Narratives of Masculinity -- 40 Eating to Live, Living to Tell: Foundational Food in the Latina Testimonial Text -- 41 Eat, Live, Remember: Food and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel -- 42 Food, Memory, and Ethics in Graphic Narratives -- 43 Reading the Food Blog as a "Culinary Autobiography": Exploring Lifestyle Construction and Enactment of Online Food-Centred Stories -- Index