It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Michael Parrish Lee
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This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the novel, uncovering the “food plot” against which the marriage plot and modern subjectivity take shape. With the emergence of Malthusian population theory and its unsettling links between sexuality and the food supply, the British novel became animated by the tension between the marriage plot and the food plot. Charting the shifting relationship between these plots, from Jane Austen’s polite meals to...
The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Michael Parrish Lee is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.
This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel aloud.
The Food Plot in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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