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  1. In "Alimentary Orientalism" Yin Yuan follows the politics of tea, sugar & opium in 18th & 19th c Britain: How did British authors portray Otherness & the consumption of the Orient?

    #PostColonialStudies #Orientalism #FoodStudies #EnglishLiterature #LiteraryStudies #Romanticism #VictorianLiterature

  2. Agriculture - just a trap? Cates Baldridge analyses narratives of the agriculturalist ideology in a variety of canonical #EnglishLiterature texts from 16th c to the present, incl. #Frankenstein #Shakespeare #WutheringHeights #Coetzee & more

    #FoodStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies

  3. British author Brian Aldiss was #BOTD 100 years ago!
    Apart from many famous #sciencefiction works, incl. his #Helliconia trilogy & "Supertoys Last All Summer Long", adapted as #Spielberg's "A.I.", he also wrote general fiction, poetry & non-fiction on SF

    #BOTD #BrianAldiss #BrianAldiss100 #ScienceFictionWriters #BritishWriters #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature