Feasts
New Comparison, Number 24 (Autumn 1997)
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Contents
Feasts
Papers from the 1996 BCLA "25th Anniversary" Symposium
Edited by Maurice Slawinski
- Maurice Slawinski, Introduction
- John Wilkins, Disorder and Luxury at the Feast: Problematic Dining in Ancient Greece
- Maurice Slawinski, Consuming the Revels: Eating as Spectacle at the Medicean Court
- Arthur Terry, A Consuming Interest: Eating and not Eating in Don Quixote
- Sarah Symmons, A Feast for the Eye: Banquets, Picnics, Cafes and the Romantic Art of Spain
- Lynette Hunter, Tea Drinking in England: Ceremony, Scandal and Domestic Bliss
- David Trotter, Gissing's Fry-Ups: Food and the Definition of Working-Class Culture in Britain in the 1880s
- Contributors
Reviews
- Rainer Kohlmayer, Oscar Wilde in Deutschland und Österreich: Untersuchungen zur Rezeption der Komödien und zur Theorie der Bühnenübersetzung (Ute Kauer)
- Gene H. Bell-Villada, Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990 (Philip Mosley)
- David Willinger (ed. and trans.), Three Fin-de-Siècle Farces (Philip Mosley)
- Agnes M. Zwanfeld, A Bookseller's Hobby-Horse, and the Rhetoric of Translation: Anthony Ernst Munnikhuisen and Bernardus Brunius, and the First Dutch Edition of 'Tristram Shandy' (1776-1779) (Joep Leerssen)
- Diary
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