Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 15 - Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
from Part III - Applications
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
Buttered toast appears frequently in Anglophone children’s literature. In its very familiarity, buttered toast might seem to be the perfect comestible to sum up the Golden Age of Children’s Literature: it calls to mind the Victorian nursery, or at least a vision of that nursery that has been created precisely through such representations, yet it is recognizable to many a young reader today, creating another filament of connection between reader and characters and drawing the reader into the imagined world. In this chapter, I make the familiarity of toast a question rather than an assumption, focusing on toast in The Wind in the Willows (1908), Mary Poppins (1934), the Harry Potter series (1997-2007) and A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006). To what extent does toast connect readers across time and place and to what extent is it becoming an exotic comestible, a food in need of a gloss?
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