Food in British Eighteenth-Century Speculative Fiction: A Brief Overview

The study considers references to the production, distribution and consumption of foodstuffs in eighteenth-century British literary texts, with examples from Ambrose Evans, Jonathan Swift, Simon Berrington, John Elliott and Daniel Defoe, among others. The relationship that characters have with food is structured so as to highlight the anxiety, eccentricity, pleasure or learning process prompted by their environments.