New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2018. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of literary history, defining characteristics, and development. Balancing a comprehensive view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.