Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place during the height of the Spanish Civil War and is roughly based on Hemingway’s experience covering the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance…
Read Moreby Daniella | Mar 2, 2018 | 20th century, Books | 0
For Whom the Bell Tolls takes place during the height of the Spanish Civil War and is roughly based on Hemingway’s experience covering the conflict for the North American Newspaper Alliance…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jan 12, 2018 | 19th century, Books | 2
As we’ve seen in both Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, food plays an important role in Dickens’ novels. But these are not the first appearances of gruel and negus in literature. In fact, earlier in the nineteenth century, Jane Austen utilized the dishes to show character development and social convention…
Read Moreby Daniella | Dec 22, 2017 | 19th century, Books | 0
In so many ways, A Christmas Carol hit upon the zeitgeist of Victorian Britain: it successfully married Christmas history with the tragic social problems rife throughout the country. But it did so in an uplifting sense of tradition, family and goodwill…
Read Moreby Daniella | Dec 7, 2017 | 19th century, Books | 0
Oliver Twist was not your average Victorian novel – it was a brave satirical criticism of contemporary treatment of the poor and vulnerable…
Read Moreby Daniella | Nov 10, 2017 | 19th century, Books | 0
Louisa May Alcott’s idyllic Thanksgiving feast consists of a turkey that is burnt on one side, inedible catnip stuffing and a pudding as heavy as lead…
Read Moreby Daniella | Oct 20, 2017 | 21st century, Books | 0
Wolf Hall contains a plethora of food references throughout the novel, reflecting everything from courtly excess to Lenten austerity…
Read Moreby Daniella | Sep 29, 2017 | 19th century, Books | 0
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is part romantic comedy, part horror story. It tells the tale of a love triangle quashed by the ghost of a Headless Horseman…
Read Moreby Daniella | Sep 5, 2017 | Books, Pre-19th century | 0
In the Sixth Terrace of Purgatory, Dante encounters the souls guilty of gluttony, condemned to circle a fragrant, tempting fruit that can never be eaten…
Read Moreby Daniella | Aug 7, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo is not a subservient housewife, making pasta in the background as men make plans. She is a shrewd and fearless matriarch…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jul 24, 2017 | Books, Pre-19th century | 0
For the second half of our summer oyster series, we’re talking about the saucy satire of Jonathan Swift in both poetry and prose…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jul 10, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
A Moveable Feast is a celebration of everything Paris which, of course, includes the food, none more so than the humble yet delicious oyster…
Read Moreby Daniella | Jun 19, 2017 | 20th century, Books | 0
The Hobbit is a truly beautiful story, made complex by the historic, literary, religious and anthropological references so intertwined with its quest…
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